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...appointee, Justice Harry A. Blackmun. A private, studious, moderate jurist of 61, Blackmun could emerge as the court's pivotal figure. He may have the deciding vote in many important cases. With Republican appointees in the majority, suggests University of Chicago Law Professor Philip Kurland, a leading court watcher, the Burger Court may steer slightly away from the Warren Court's judicial activism-but hardly toward the conservatism that "Vice President Agnew and Attorney General Mitchell are seeking to create...
...other half of the Hayakawa-Gardner poll might have been both a good choice for the Corporation and a good guess for the Corporation watcher...
...John W. Gardner, 58, founder of the Urban Coalition: The other half of the Hayakawa-Gardner poll might have been both a good choice for the Corporation and a good guess for the Corporation watcher...
...progress from liberalism to violence may be intended as a paradigm of contemporary student politics, but Director Paul Williams is equally interested in the human impulses that shape history. A is certainly no hero, and as a political figure he possesses about as much charisma as the neighborhood poll watcher. His gimpy right leg cripples him physically, and his academic training-plus a lower-middle-class upbringing-tends to paralyze him politically. Unfortunately, The Revolutionary sometimes suffers from the same lingering paralysis. The crucial climactic scene ends with a frame-freeze as A confronts the judge: Will he throw...
News Editor Edwin Goodpaster relayed instructions and guidance on the needs of the editors. And Hugh Sidey, Washington bureau chief since January 1969 and our chief President watcher since 1960, assumed the baton of overall command...