Word: warrens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Everett-on-the-Spot. Most significant was the soul-searching among Senators, many of them Western liberals who have long bowed to N.R.A.-generated pressure and opposed effective controls. Washington Democrat Warren Magnuson, who as chairman of the Commerce Committee helped bottle up the Dodd bill after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican...
Chief Justice Warren, who wrote the majority opinion, emphasized that the ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the contentions about federal aid to parochial schools. That problem will have to be dealt with by the lower court, where the argument started...
...policeman catches sight of a suspicious character, stops him and frisks him. But doesn't the Fourth Amendment specifically bar "unreasonable searches and seizures?" It does indeed, said the Supreme Court last week, but the operative word is "unreasonable." Speaking for an 8-to-1 majority, Chief Justice Warren held that the Constitution permits a policeman to accost an individual if there is good reason to suspect that he is up to no good, and to search him for weapons if there is good reason to suspect that he may be armed...
While the election clearly marked a step to the right within the state party, Tommy Kuchel, 57, had also brought trouble on himself. In his 16 years in the Senate, Kuchel, appointed by Earl Warren in 1952 to fill out Richard Nixon's unexpired term, had entrenched himself as minority whip. With his bland, litigious mind, the Californian found a congenial environment in the clubbish Senate, but he was never very careful about looking after his political fences at home, where he was often more popular with Democrats than with Republicans. Nor did his refusal to support the campaigns...
...Dodgers. You've won 197 games, more than any other Dodger hurler past or present, and you've pitched 47 shutouts, which puts you tops among all the active pitchers in baseball, and you've struck out 2,381 batters, which is only 202 short of Warren Spahn's National League record...