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...through some of the court's most turbulent years. Combining half a century of service on the bench, they cannot be replaced by any pair who could immediately command a similar respect from their colleagues, or from the legal profession. Blemished by the resignation under fire of Justice Abe Fortas, the abortive attempts to impeach Douglas, and Nixon's unsuccessful efforts to elevate two lesser jurists, Clement F. Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell, the court is in need of new stature...
...Middle East skyjackings. In 1969 there was a news eruption: the first moon landing, Chappaquiddick, the original Woodstock, the Sharon Tate murders, the death of Ho Chi Minh. The year before that, the Democrats, the police and the protesters had their uproar in Chicago, L.B.J. nominated his old friend Abe Fortas for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and the Russians marched on Prague...
Replying to critics who claimed that the Times had only started the series to make money, Managing Editor Abe Rosenthal said that there was no increase in circulation at all until the Government took the Times to court (then on one day it jumped about 60,000). But the cost of producing the series, which may yet run through another eight installments, could reach $1 million. As for how the Times selected the material it has run so far, Foreign Editor James Greenfield said that the editors started with specific decisions, then worked back to the documents that...
...Abe emerges, finally, as the shining avenger of Jewish wrongs, despite the fact that he is technically guilty of libel since the number of Kelno's crimes did not approach 15,000 and Abe, who cannot recall the doctor at all when charged, does not even know how that pesky sentence got into his book in the first place...
...result of Abe's fecklessness is a roundup of Kelno's victims, who must come to London to relive their tortures in court. Understandably, Abe does not even want to see them, but his son reassures him. "The minute you meet them, you'll forget about their mutilation," he cries. Abe does pull himself together, so much so that each victim goes away with an autographed copy of his complete works. In the meantime, their testimony has accounted for pages and pages of excruciatingly detailed descriptions of sexual organs and agony. In reality it is the documentation...