Word: warrens
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Creating a punishment to fit a crime is not always easy. All too often, the judicial choices come in two basic modes: prison terms or fines. But some judges have experimented with inventing appropriate alternatives. Federal Judge Warren Urbom last week came up with one of the most dramatic efforts to date. The Missouri Valley Construction Co. of Grand Island, Neb., had pleaded guilty to bid-rigging charges and faced a $2 million fine. Instead, at the company's suggestion, Urbom sought to do something more concrete about the bid-rigging crime. Missouri Valley will...
...July Saturday afternoon, some 150 dazed travelers kept their vigil. Many had camped in the terminal for four days. "I've had it! I want a bath, I want a bed, I want clean clothes," said Sharon Mann, 23, a drama student in a formerly yellow blouse. Aleyda Warren, a Londoner who had been visiting friends in Connecticut, figured that she had spent $100 during her four days in line. Other standbys were cheerful: Bill Lockyer and his wife Joy, a retired couple from New Zealand, had seen a Broadway show (Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives) with the money...
...SEARCH FOR WARREN HARDING...
Novels with cute titles should come with a tag marked caveat emptor. The purchases, when opened, are likely to be as interesting and substantial as unfolded cocktail napkins. This year's notable exception is My Search for Warren Harding; the title represents truth in advertising. Elliot Weiner, an ambitious academic historian from New York City, thinks he has located a former mistress of President Harding, who died in office in 1923. The suspect lives in Los Angeles, happily undetected by the handful of Harding specialists who are Weiner's competitors. If the old lady has kept letters...
Since 1969, Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan have appointed six new U.S. Supreme Court Justices, starting with Warren Burger, in the open hope of reversing the liberalism of the Earl Warren era. So how conservative is the Burger Court? As the Justices last week completed one of their most vigorous terms in the past decade and a half, they seemed to have ruled the question irrelevant. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther, after considering the term's work: "They are beyond left or right description and therefore unpredictable." Concurs Professor G. Edward White of the University of Virginia...