Fortas Ethics Shadow Grows Over Nixon Era Justice
The Fortas case pressures the Nixon administration to seek his resignation amid investigations into ties with Louis Wolfson and a $20 000 fee. editors urge full public disclosure and a Senate investigation, fearing harm to the Court and asserting the need for impartial probes.
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Supreme Court
Abe Fortas
Congress
Louis &. Wolfson
White House
U.S
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Woaifsen
Wolfson
Justice Forias
American University School of Law
Washington
Fortas
United States Supreme Court
Christian Science Monitor
Senate Judiciary Committee
Boston
Georgia
United
Supreme Court of the United States
Justice Portas
Caesar
Justice Fortay
Supremeourt
Owever
Justice Fortis
Senate Committee On the Judiciary
Portas
Countdown to Senate Germ Warfare Debate
A garbled voice piece claims the Senate uncovered a super-bacteria bomb and jokes about coughs and bad breath in soldiers. It questions germ warfare and references the AMA’s stance on medicare and Israeli commandos knocking out Osiro’s lights as a hypothetical power failure.
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AMA
Osiro
Apollo 10 Moon Shot Work Relies on Tennessee Lab
In Tullahoma Tennessee and the Arnold Engineering Development Center the Apollo 10 program is tested with the world’s largest hypersonic wind tunnel and eight wind tunnels. Engineers describe test facilities built to endure forces up to 200000 times their weight. The center uses massive electric power and a man made lake to cool propulsion test cells and wind tunnels while supporting the moon shot from a forested region near Cape Kennedy.
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Ila
Tennessee
Epsilon
Mt Everest
Earth
Tullahoma
Tenn
U.S. Air Force
Arnold Engineering Developmen Center
Arnold Towers
H.H
Hap
Arnold
Air Force
Free World
von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility
Back to Africa plan draws little support from readers
A Florida reader outlines a proposal to ease racial tension by voluntary emigration to Africa with government backing. He compares the idea to Israel’s homeland concept and notes past experiments in Liberia and Sierra Leone, but doubts many African nations would attract large numbers of American black migrants.
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Africa
W. B. Higgins
Higgins
Israel
Liberia
United States
African Colonization Society
Sierra Leone
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Zambia
Mafia Eyes Mining Into Politics Plan
A Washington transcript depicts a secret Mafia meeting discussing diversifying into politics to launder money from gambling and narcotics. Don Maclean reports the crime chiefs consider shifting from illegal trades to political influence as a new revenue source.
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Washington
Nixon
Justice Department
New York
Vegas
Feds
Boos
Alphonse
Hood
Snow White
Poor Seek Equal Rights In Court Case
Bath County case in Western District of Virginia Civil Action No. 8-C-13-H challenges state funding and facilities for being inadequate for the poor. Erwin Shad Solomon leads supporters arguing that poverty-based discrimination harms school access and outcomes, with data on graduation rates, facilities, and program gaps. The suit seeks state provision of adequate education regardless of county wealth.
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Warm Springs
Erwin
Shad
Solomon
Virginia Public School System
Bath County
Virginia
H. Burruss
Wilkerson
Robert Burruss
Woodrow Wilkerson
Burruss
Ted Dalton
Dalton
Shad Solomon
Commonwealth of Virginia
On This Day In History Highlights
The record notes events from 1904 St. Louis hosted the Olympic Games first time in the United States to 1942 Congress creating the WAACS to 1948 Britain ending rule in Palestine and Tel Aviv proclaiming Israel plus a George Meredith quote about wit and beauty.
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St. Louis
Rotterdam
Congress
WAACS
Women’s
Britain
Pal
Tel Aviv
Israel
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