Word: alberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fortas was gone from the Supreme Court, and Associate Justice William O. Douglas had severed his questionable connection with the Albert B. Parvin Foundation, but the court remained enmeshed in controversy over ethics. This time Douglas provided the target...
...ludicrous to suggest that the Associate Justice would risk compromising his integrity for a $350 magazine article. Douglas' probity was more seriously challenged on the Parvin connection, after Albert Parvin inexplicably made public a file of his personal papers and financial dealings. Among other things, it included a May 12 letter from Douglas dismissing charges that he had been indiscreet in counseling the foundation. "The strategy is to get me off the court," he wrote Parvin, a Los Angeles multimillionaire businessman. The Justice's bitterness was aimed at the Internal Revenue Service, which has been investigating the Parvin...
...founder, jailed Financier Louis Wolfson. Yet there were some curious links between the two cases. For one thing, Parvin had been named a co-conspirator -but was never tried-in a securities-law violation case along with Louis Wolfson. Moreover, the Parvin Foundation derived its income from Albert Parvin's ties with Las Vegas gambling operations. This raised a question similar to the central issue of the Fortas affair: Should a Supreme Court Justice be judged by the company he keeps? Adding to the intrigue was the fact that until last week the Parvin Foundation retained Carolyn Agger...
...Twenty years have changed both men, and last week Acheson turned up to help Nixon in the President's battle to win congressional approval of the Administration's Safeguard anti-ballistic-missile system. Democrat Acheson, along with former Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Nitze and Albert Wohlstetter, a nuclear-war strategist at the University of Chicago, announced that they were forming a bipartisan group of scientists, professors and former public officials called the Committee to Maintain a Prudent Defense Policy...
...which are enormous crystal ballons of the sort normally seen only at the swankiest restaurants, brings an invocation of 'Hei, hei,' a friendly salutation which Fielding has borrowed from the hard-drinking Finns. Old anecdotes are dredged up and embellished until they sink again?about the day that Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly and inexplicably vanished in the middle of a Fielding party. It turned out that he had fallen from the rock garden, broken a leg, and painfully dragged himself half...