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...leaks and ordered the FBI to stop them. As the bureau's just-appointed director, William D. Ruckelshaus, now admits, the FBI failed in that mission; it did, however, set up a number of wiretaps without any court authorization. One of them was on the home phone of Morton Halperin, then a consultant for the National Security Council, and on that tap, the FBI heard some conversations by Ellsberg. Fully a year ago. Judge Byrne had demanded an account of all Government eavesdropping on Ellsberg, but Ruckelshaus disclosed the tap on Halperin only last week-and added the incredible...
Seven years ago, Morton Eisen, a New York City wholesale shoe salesman, became convinced that his stockbroker had charged excessive fees. All other buyers and sellers of odd lots of stock (fewer than 100 shares), Eisen figured, were discriminated against in the same manner. He brought a class action on behalf of all who had paid the inflated fees-a total that has now reached 6,000,000 people-and he won a signal victory. Smaller class actions had long been common, but in Eisen's case a U.S. court of appeals held for the first time that federal...
...undersigned are professors in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute. Kenneth M. Setton Homer A. Thompson Morton White Harold F. Cherniss Marshall Clagett James F. Gilliam
...Alamos Scientific Laboratory, involves sinking two side-by-side holes deep into the earth until they reach hot basement rock (approximately 1,000° F.). Then by pumping cold water into one hole, the scientists hope to extract steam from the other. Project Director Morton Smith reports that test borings to a depth of only 2,500 ft. (v. the final goal of 7,500 ft.) already have produced significant heating. Battelle Memorial Institute is proposing a similar experiment in Montana...
...absurd" as if they were significant and holds out the "false promise of psychological nirvana." Considerable support for Maliver's view (framed in more temperate language) is to be found in Encounter Groups: First Facts (Basic Books; $15), written for professional readers by University of Chicago Psychologist Morton Lieberman, Stanford University Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom and State University of New York Psychologist Matthew Miles. After systematically evaluating more than a dozen varieties of encounter groups, the three scientists found that a third of the participants gained nothing, while another third reaped "negative outcomes" and in some cases sustained "significant psychological...