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Last week the A.B.A.'s 87th annual convention jammed a dozen Manhattan hotels with a lot of strangers, and also three Supreme Court Justices and the President of the U.S. From breakfast to banquet, 7,000 lawyers heard 600 speeches on everything from "Sex and the Single Premium"* to "The Defense of the White-Collar Accused." Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy announced a new Office of Criminal Justice to improve criminal procedures and perhaps soften the Department of Justice's reputation as what he called "The Department of Prosecution...
Renamed the Sheraton - Commander, the 350-room hotel will be the 87th in the international Sheraton system...
Kentucky Derby winner Chateaugay will probably go off the favorite in Saturday's 87th running of the Preakness Stakes at Pimlico, but the smart money (Le., mine) is going on Candy Spots to redeem himself after his disappointing third place finish in the Churchill Downs classic...
California Congressman James Roosevelt said that the 88th Congress is "not going as well as the 87th." He added that he is not optimistic over the prospects for an education bill or meaningful tax reforms...
Cooley's fears then were that a liberalized Rules Committee would mean that a batch of New Frontier legislation would be waved through the House. They were certainly not very well founded. Even as expanded, the Rules Committee in the 87th Congress held up 24 bills, including Administration proposals on an urban-affairs department, a mass-transit act, broad federal aid to education, and a youth-conservation corps. More important, other priority Administration bills were either bottled up in other committees or defeated on the House floor...