Business: Bill and Billy

Over the dimpled, apple-laden hills of Yakima, Wash, some 30 years ago a sandy-haired boy with a pinched, earnest face used to peddle papers for the Yakima Daily Republic to help support his impoverished family.. Two months ago when this same boy, now a lean, tousle-haired lawyer of 39, was rumored to be in line for an important Government post, the Yakima daily Republic sourly headlined an editorial: "Yakima Not at Fault." Reason for the daily Republic's lack of enthusiasm over the possibility that William Orville Douglas might become chairman of the...

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