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...away. "This space is reserved for a Supreme Court Justice," huffed the guard. Miss Justice Lockwood finally persuaded the doubter that she was in the right space. Now, four years after her election to Arizona's highest bench, Lorna Lockwood has risen again. Her Honor's four brethren have unanimously elected her the first woman state Chief Justice in U.S. history...
Miraculous Renewal. Blake's original idea was for his own Presbyterians, the Episcopalians, the Methodists and the United Church of Christ-who have since been joined by the Disciples of Christ and the Evangelical United Brethren-to undertake a series of theological conversations exploring the possibility of union. Two good omens for the future, said Blake, are the favorable response to his suggestion from those churches, and the "amazing and miraculous renewal" of Roman Catholicism visible at the Second Vatican Council, which "has made more important and urgent the effort to unite major Protestant churches...
...almost complete frankness in plays, novels and movies, the question of where language becomes illegal obscenity continues to plague the courts. Groping for an answer, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black argues that any ban on obscenity threatens free speech. Unwilling to go that far, his brethren have vaguely drawn the line at that which offends "contemporary community standards" and appeals mainly to "prurient interest...
...blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren...
Politics & Principles. If a search for national standards is what basically haunts Black and his brethren, the frequently fiat-like results have obviously upset many Americans. Totally apart from the Birchers, with their campaign to "impeach Earl Warren," the critics of at least some decisions include such highly respectable friends of the Court as Harvard's famed Law Professor Paul Freund, who sees in its drumfire decisions "a tendency to make broad principles do service for specific problems that demand differentiation, a tendency toward overbroadness that is not an augury of enduring work...