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HARDLY any Administration is free of scandal. Harry Truman had T. Lamar Caudle and assorted "five-percenters." Dwight Eisenhower had Sherman Adams and his vicuna coat. Lyndon Johnson had Bobby Baker-and Abe Fortas. To a cynical public, the recurrent surfacing of peculators and huggermuggers suggests that almost everyone in Washington is on the take. The truth is more reassuring, though bad enough. The capital does tolerate unsavory practices that could and should be stopped...
FORTY CARATS. Julie Harris portrays a middle-aged divorcee who is bedded by a lad of 22, while her teen-age daughter runs off with a wealthy widower of 45. Directed with crisp agility by Abe Burrows, the show is never less than civilized...
...Supreme Court is generally thought of as a serene haven. For Abe Fortas, that view has been obscured by some ominous clouds. When Lyndon Johnson nominated his old friend and adviser to the high court in 1965, witnesses turned the Senate confirmation hearing into a denunciation of Fortas. The Justice later distinguished himself in three court sessions, only to face more virulent-and effective-opposition last year when Johnson selected him to succeed Earl Warren as Chief Justice. Partly because of conservative disgruntlement with Fortas' liberal record and partly because of Republican confidence that the G.O.P. would shortly...
...rule as unrealistically rigid. "Strait indeed is the path of the righteous legislator," wrote Justice John Harlan wryly. "Slide rule in hand, he must avoid all thought of county lines, local traditions, politics, history and economics, so as to achieve the magic formula: one man, one vote." Justice Abe Fortas tended to agree, but he nonetheless concurred in these cases because neither state had made a sufficient "good-faith effort...
...from the people." Moreover, the conservationists are well aware that many more of America's remaining wild rivers are ticketed for taming. Among some 70 dams on the corps' boards or under construction are projects that would affect the Sangamon in Illinois (the tributary taken by Abe Lincoln in leaving the backwoods), the Big Walnut in Indiana, the Snake in Idaho and the St. John in Maine...