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...Supreme Court of the U.S. overworked? By many an outsider's accounting, it is woefully burdened with an ever-mounting case load. But last week a veteran insider, Associate Justice William O. Douglas, offered a dissenting opinion. Speaking at the Cornell University Law School, Douglas said: "I don't recall any time in my 20 years or more of service on the court when we had more time for research, deliberation, debate and meditation." The number of cases filed in the court has nearly doubled in the past two decades, but Douglas attributed most of the increase...
...original schedule, was pushed even harder as the Navy shifted $52 million from other shipbuilding and reserve funds to speed seven nuclear subs now under construction, advanced operational dates by ten weeks. The Navy's eventual fleet of 18 nuclear Polaris subs (by 1964) will berth and load missiles at a new $26.5 million base seven miles above the Charleston, S.C. harbor on the Cooper River. At dedication ceremonies last week, Rear Admiral William F. ("Red") Raborn, chief of the Polaris project, looked confidently beyond the Polaris' 1,200-mile range of 1960, predicted a 1,500-mile...
Critic Clifton Fadiman, the Schweppes-man of belles-lettres, thinks that everyone's mind is dreadfully underdeveloped. He is right, of course. A load of guilt equivalent to the combined weight of Dr. Eliot and his "Five-Foot Shelf" rests upon nearly all college-exposed Americans, by whom too many of the great books are unread or unremembered...
Chain Reaction. At i: 20 p.m. the blowup came. When police tried to seize an African at the gate to the compound, there was a scuffle and the crowd advanced toward the fence. Police Commander G. D. Pienaar rapped out an order to his men to load. Within minutes, almost in a chain reaction, the police began firing with revolvers, rifles, Sten guns. A woman shopper patronizing a fruit stand at the edge of the crowd was shot dead. A ten-year-old boy toppled. Crazily, the unarmed crowd stampeded to safety as more shots rang out, leaving behind hundreds...
Last week Putnam was testing a single shelf containing 48 of Zeus's designed 4,032 capacitors. It fired, producing only a loud "blonk" as its energy discharged through a heavy aluminum cylinder called "the load" and dissipated as harmless magnetism...