Word: appointing
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When Franklin Murphy decided to step down as chancellor of U.C.L.A., the California board of regents could have followed the normal practice in finding a successor: appoint an acting president, sound out candidates, eventually settle on a president who had made a name elsewhere. Instead, the regents satisfied themselves, faculty and students by staying on campus. Early this month, Charles E. Young, U.C.L.A.'s vice chancellor, officially took charge of the 28,000-student campus. Only eight years out of graduate school, Young is, at 36, the nation's youngest head of a major university...
...court's 15 judges to six-year terms. Their extensive powers will include the right to interpret the constitution, decide on the dissolution of political parties opposed to the republican form of government, and review all laws, decrees and administrative decisions. Most important, the Supreme Court will appoint all lower-court judges; the positions will no longer be political plums to be awarded by executive whim. Plans call for legally trained justices of the peace to be placed in every district, bringing the law to the province level for the first time...
...position is not so sanguine. Already well into his third term, he will undoubtedly think twice before seeking an unprecedented fourth in 1970. A Senate seat is even less likely. One New York Senate seat will be voted on this fall, while for the other, Rockefeller will soon appoint a successor to the late Robert Kennedy. With his limitless fortune, Rockefeller is not dependent on the normal political bases, however. He could thus retire in 1970 and still, at 64, go after the presidential nomination in 1972, assuming, of course, that he would be opposing President Humphrey and not President...
...Nixon's meeting with some Southern delegations. The results made the biggest scoop of the week. Nixon assured the Dixie politicians that he had given only grudging support to the federal open-housing law, and felt such matters ought to be left to local decision. He would appoint "strict constitutionalists" to the U.S. Supreme Court. The thrust of his remarks seemed to indicate that he had made a shift to the right...
...Fortas failed to mention the dozens of other Justices who had not had intimate dealings with the White House. There are, in fact, no set guidelines for the relations between a Justice and a President. Obviously, as Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen points out, no Chief Executive will appoint an enemy to the bench. Just as obviously, no one expects a Justice to sever old friendships when he takes the oath. On the other hand, even open, formal service to the President-as distinguished from informal advice such as Fortas gave Johnson-has been criticized. Eugene McCarthy has faulted Johnson...