Word: john
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Almost in desperation, the White House for the past month has been examining a consumption-cutting tax on gasoline. In late October, an Administration task force headed by Deputy Energy Secretary John Sawhill began looking at what the U.S. could do in event of a major supply interruption. From a list of 28 options, the task force came down to two: rationing or a gasoline...
...resignation. The board had just renewed his four-year contract in September, but he was "tired," he said. He proposed a dramatic $70 million budget cut requiring the elimination of 1,700 jobs and the scaling down of programs for the disadvantaged. Two days later longtime School Board President John Carey also resigned, and left town on vacation, offering no explanation. After lengthy meetings with Mrs. Catherine Rohter, Carey's replacement as school board president, two of Hannon's top financial officials resigned. Mrs. Rohter let it be known that she had been unable to obtain an accurate...
...court has no one who fits that description, as the authors see it. Decisions turn on the shifting votes of "the group," as Stewart calls it, the court's centrist core-Stewart, Powell, White and John Paul Stevens. Harry Blackmun is described as having to struggle to keep up with the court's work load but, growing in self-confidence and independence, he increasingly joins the group. Justice William Rehnquist has the intelligence and the personal charm to be the leader but is too far to the right to consistently swing others. The two leftover liberals from...
Other oldtimers on the court hung on long after they should have retired. Justice Hugo Black, who died in 1971, tried to cover up a stroke suffered while playing tennis; his colleagues began to wonder if he was becoming senile. In one pathetic scene, Justice John Marshall Harlan, once one of the court's leading intellects, was trying to sign a denial for review from his hospital bed. Nearly blind, he signed the bed sheet instead of the document. Justice William Douglas tried to exert influence even after he retired. He attempted to file a dissent in a campaign...
...also uncovered a tawdry story at the University of New Mexico that involved faking academic credits for Guard Craig Gilbert. Agents overheard a conversation between Coach Norm Ellenberger and Manny Goldstein, his assistant, in which Goldstein said he arranged to get some credits for Gilbert by paying $300 to John Woolley, dean of admissions at Oxnard College in Oxnard, Calif. Gilbert had gone to school there for one year. The plan was to have Woolley certify that Gilbert had earned the credits at, of all unlikely places, Mercer County Community College in Trenton, N.J. Gilbert, a Californian, had never gone...