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Presiding over the court was Chief Justice Earl Warren, who as attorney general of California in 1942 had been vocal in demanding that Japanese-Americans be evacuated from their West Coast homes. On the bench was Justice Abe Fortas, who as wartime Under Secretary of the Interior had protested the mass lockups. Justice Tom Clark, who had been the Justice Department's representative in California a quarter of a century ago and worked with the military in detaining the Japanese-Americans, did not participate in the decision...
...Abe Abrams, 52, has been Army Vice Chief of Staff since September 4, 1964, the day he pinned on his fourth star. He will take over from Lieut. General John A. Heintges, who has been named Deputy U.S. Army Commander in Europe. The appointment of a full general to replace a lieutenant general underscores speculation that Abrams will ultimately succeed Westmoreland. Abrams, who has just returned from his third inspection tour of the war zone, considers the present U.S. force level (435,000) in Viet Nam "about right...
...tanker once said: "They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards." Abrams' embrace of battle earned him the unqualified admiration of his fiery Third Army Commander, George Patton: "I'm supposed to be the best tank commander in the Army, but I have one peer-Abe Abrams...
...moment to this trinity of matters. The ADA in the past has had its political base in a rough coalition between unattached liberals and liberal trade unionists. So I trust it will continue to be. We shall continue to find strength in our alliance with men like Walter Reuther, "Abe" Abel, Louis Stohlberg and others who believe in their old-fashioned way that liberalism is the cause of the worker. But we must also be aware that large sections of the labor movement are no pillar of liberal strength. On the contrary the leadership is aged, contented and deeply somnambulant...
Unique & Flexible. The opinion was glumly received. Justice Abe Fortas, in an unusually strong dissent, praised the merger as "unique," applauded the ICC for "flexibility" in its approach to Eastern railroad problems, and criticized his colleagues for "a reversion to the days of judicial negation of governmental action in the economic sphere...