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Armed with that formidable self-education, Black emerged in his second term as one of the Senate's most ardent Roosevelt supporters, a relentless, high-handed (and hardly judicious) investigator of public-utility lobbies, a prime mover of TVA, and a thundering critic of "judicial usurpation" by a Supreme...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Supreme Court: The Limits That Create Liberty & The Liberty That Creates Limits | 10/9/1964 | See Source »

The Chicago doctors have stopped bleeding from aneurysms (ballooned-out arteries) in the brain's arterial roundabout, the Circle of Willis, by drilling a hole in the patient's skull under a local anesthetic and inserting a stainless steel needle (see diagram). This has a hairlike electrode tip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Surgery: Wired for Health | 7/10/1964 | See Source »

Cleveland School Superintendent William Levenson recently resigned in anger after the school-board president took a policy squabble to the newspapers. Chicago's strong-minded Benjamin Willis quit when the city board insisted on a broader, faster student-transfer plan than he wanted, returned to the job only after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: Who's in Charge? | 5/8/1964 | See Source »

Exasperated beyond endurance, New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton finally let fly at the fact that his fellow civil rights proponents were "contribut ing innocently or inadvertently to the so-called filibuster." He said he had been holding a watch as Virginia Democrat Willis Robertson, who makes no bones about being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congress: The Filibuster Before the Filibuster | 4/3/1964 | See Source »

Rising Offensive. By short-term accounting, boycotts have won nothing whatever. The Boston boycott last June was sparked by the refusal of the city's school-committee chairwoman even to recognize the existence of segregation. Result: whites overwhelmingly re-elected her last November. Chicago's huge (225,000...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Public Schools: The Spreading Boycott | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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