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...Burger's five years as Chief Justice, the court has seemed unable to establish a firm identity or to move with consistent direction. The Burger bench contrasts sharply with its activist predecessor, and the difference was being vividly recalled last week because of the death of former Chief Justice Earl Warren...
...charge Gurney with seven felonies, including one count each of conspiracy to defraud the U.S., bribery and accepting unlawful compensation, and four counts of perjury. His two aides and the two helpful HUD officials were also indicted, as were two former officers of Florida's Republican Party-Earl M. Crittenden, onetime state G.O.P. chairman, and George Anderson, former state party treasurer. If convicted, Gurney faces up to 42 years in prison and fines of at least...
...vote. If Earl Warren had to choose one memorial, it would undoubtedly be the decisions of his Supreme Court affirming that principle. There were others-school desegregation and the broadening of criminal suspects' rights, for instance-that also changed political and judicial history...
Warren always remembered what it was like to be in the little fellow's place. His father, an immigrant from Norway (the original family name was Varran), was a railroad worker in Los Angeles when Earl was born. The elder Warren joined the American Railway Union and was blacklisted in 1894 when he went on strike. He moved the family to Bakersfield, where he got a job and began working his way up the economic ladder to the comfortable perch of prosperous landlord. But young Earl had a keen understanding of the workingman's problems. As a teenage...
...Earl G. Graves, 39. Chase Manhattan has a friend in Earl Graves. The bank put $25,000 into his monthly Black Enterprise magazine four years ago, now values its investment at nearly $500,000. Graves went from Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto to win a scholarship at Morgan State, later was an adviser to Senator Robert Kennedy's Bed-Stuy redevelopment project. An ex-Green Beret captain and federal narcotics agent, he started Black Enterprise in 1970, turned a profit the first year, now earns more than $2 million in ad revenues. Suave and ambitious, Graves has expanded...