Summer fun for a Supreme Court Justice does not necessarily mean hitting the beach for swimming, tanning and frisbee. With the high court now on vacation, Justice John Paul Stevens, 64, chose a more deliberative form of relaxation last week. Wearing a well-practiced quizzical expression and a lawyerly bow-tie, Stevens captained a team of politicians and judges at a Washington contract-bridge tournament against several British parliamentarians. Stevens, a life master, plays his cards not too differently from the way he decides cases—"a little on the conservative side but with dash," said one expert...
People: Jul. 23, 1984
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