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Though they are not provided for in the Constitution, they make important policy, execute it and sit as judges. There is hardly anyone in the U.S. who is not in some way affected by one or another of their acts. They fix the price of milk and electric power, decide where airlines can fly and pipelines snake, police the stock market and determine the content of a tube of lip stick. They are the nation's 30 federal regulatory agencies - and their great powers over American life and business have become increasingly controversial. Senator Everett Dirksen calls them...
...some-of-my-best-friends-are-Negroes statements, recalled how he had been reared by a "Negro mammy." The phrase enraged Rhode Island Democrat John Pastore. "We don't just want to protect your mammy," he said. "We want to protect everybody's mammy. We want to fix it so that a Negro woman can go into a drugstore and get a glass of water when she is thirsty. That's what this bill is about...
...Lumbard of the U.S. Court of Appeals in New York writes that in his busy jurisdiction bail bondsmen steer paying defendants to "a lawyer who will kick back to them a substantial part of the fee." Often this "lazy and incompetent" court hanger-on falsely claims that he can "fix someone" for a higher fee. Since he "seldom knows any law or reads any cases," his arguments in court are "so transparently hollow that it is not easy for most juries to sympathize with his client...
...having been overcharged as far back as 1946, even though the original electrical-conspiracy cases covered only the 1956-60 period. The ruling stemmed from a clause in the law that suspends the statute of limitations (four years in antitrust cases) if plaintiffs can prove both that price-fixing had been practiced long before the indictment and had been "fraudulently concealed." Lawyers for the electrical-equipment companies offered an eyebrow-raising defense. They did not deny the price-fixing conspiracy but denied that it had been "fraudulently concealed." They contended, in effect, that customers knew about the fix but that...
...says Sutherland, is "to catch and pin down the essence of that aspect of reality which moves me-to fix and mark out the shape of my sensations." Sutherland's sensations when he faces nature are far from rhapsodic. He is like a perverse Picasso run riot in a vegetable patch: he draws polyps plopping limply atop earthen walls, a skull looking as if it were a spider's web peering from a lattice of green leaves. Once he caught a huge toad, put it in a jar and made 50 drawings of it. "He was a very...