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...court was "heeling" to the left and felt obliged, as he later put it, "to lean the other way." He was not much of a counterweight. The high court at the time was still dominated by liberals from the Earl Warren era, and Rehnquist often found himself in lonely dissent against the Justices' rulings upholding the constitutional rights of blacks, women and the poor. Indeed, Rehnquist was on the short end of so many 8-to-1 votes that his law clerks presented him with a small Lone Ranger doll, which still sits on the mantel in his chambers...
...William Rehnquist is the Lone Ranger no longer. To his brethren he will henceforth be known as "the chief." Last week President Reagan announced that Rehnquist will succeed Warren Burger, 78, who will step down after 17 years as the highest jurist in the land when the court's term ends next month. On the first Monday in October, when the nine Justices emerge from behind the red curtain to take the high bench, William Hubbs Rehnquist will become the 16th Chief Justice of the United States...
...other primary preludes to crucial Senate elections, the results seemed to bode well for Democrats. In South Dakota, incumbent Senator James Abdnor fended off a challenge from retiring Governor William Janklow in the Republican primary; he will face the popular four-term Congressman Tom Daschle, the state's lone representative in the House. At Daschle headquarters, his campaign workers applauded Abdnor's victory. They felt the tough-talking Janklow would have been a more formidable opponent...
...York City, muttered, "War and Peace wasn't this long." The meals are justly infamous as well. "You eat here only what you throw away at home," chortles Bennstrom. Typical Ashram lunch: a small fruit plate, plus a dish of cottage cheese with six stranded raisins flanking a lone strawberry. A cowbell used to guard the refrigerator from desperate raiders; it was abandoned as excessive, but the food still is not. At dinner one night, Brad Rosenberg, 43, a Los Angeles real estate developer, set aside some hated squash. His tablemate leaned over and asked if she could have...
...years ago. The Texan's ancestral memory is strong. The state's highways are lined with historical markers, as well as with antilittering signs that sound just the right note of truculent nationalism: don't mess with texas. Texans cherish a sort of dual citizenship. They joke about it. Lone Star calls itself the national beer of Texas. It is hard to imagine a man from Chicago calling himself an Illinoisan in the way that a man from Dallas will call himself a Texan...