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Since her husband David Harris was imprisoned for draft evasion, said Folk Singer Joan Baez, she has made a career of all the causes-peace, civil rights, ecology. All, that is, except women's liberation. "I can't take it seriously," explained Joan. "I mean, if I'm carrying my guitar and my baby, and my husband's in jail, I'm not going to yell at some guy who holds the door open...
...sharp dissent, Justice Hugo Black defended the 1962 decision and deflated Brennan's explanation of the court's reversal. "Nothing at all has changed," said Black, "except the membership of the court and the personal views of one Justice." Indeed, Chief Justice Earl Warren, who had sided with Black, has been replaced by Warren Burger, who voted with the majority. Justice Potter Stewart, who upheld the anti-injunction law in 1962, voted against it last week...
...people would hate him. They did. They also hated the play, which folded in Philadelphia after 17 performances. "It was not a pleasant experience," admits Mike. "I behaved very badly toward Elaine." She abandoned performing for about six years. Mike, as he says, "might have been Dick Cavett today" except for Saint Subber's stomach. The producer owned a play by a TV comedy writer named Neil Simon. He remembered a funnyman who might just be able to direct. "Mike had misgivings and doubts," Saint Subber recalls. "He said, 'Why do you come to me?' I said, 'I chose...
...sacred image of baseball, Bouton answers: "Fans are fed a constant stream of bull about these clean-cut, All-America guys. Let kids start thinking about some real heroes instead of phony heroes." What riles Bouton most of all is the accusation that he makes everyone look bad except himself. "Good God," he says, "I'm in there most of all. I'm bare-assed naked in a swimming pool at a Hollywood party with martinis in both hands, shouting for joy. How's that for self-image...
...family had dominant holdings in the Mellon National Bank, Gulf, Alcoa, Koppers and Carborundum. Richard, who became head of the family in 1934, later added First Boston Corp. and General Reinsurance Corp. Minority interests gave the Mellons a resonant voice in just about every Pittsburgh-based company except U.S. Steel. The family's policy was to reign rather than command, and its members -who include Mellon's cousins and nephews-stepped in only when management changes seemed necessary, which was seldom. Mellon himself picked many of the top managers, and they knew that he had veto power over...