Word: benching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are eight Negro federal judges, 100 city, county and state judges, four U.S. ambassadors. Thurgood Marshall, who recently resigned from the federal bench at the urging of President Johnson to become U.S. Solicitor General, represents the U.S. in the most important litigations before the Supreme Court. Carl Rowan, onetime Ambassador to Finland, only recently resigned as director of the USIA, where he was chiefly responsible for projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia...
Last week in Montgomery, U.S. District Judge Frank M. Johnson Jr. ruled that civil righteousness is no excuse for lawlessness. A native Alabamian, and a Republican who was appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower, Johnson has probably handled more sticky civil rights cases than any other federal trial judge. More often than not, he has ruled in favor of the civil rights forces -as last spring, when he authorized the Selma-for-Montgomery Negro protest march. Says Johnson: "I'm not a segregationist, but I'm no crusader either. I just interpret...
...court's current liberal, activist majority-with a special interest in civil liberties. His approach can be expected to differ only in degree from that of Arthur Goldberg, whose seat-the so-called Jewish seat-he takes on the court. But Fortas will bring with him to the bench a special problem. His long and intimate friendship with the President and his handling of some of the more difficult episodes in the Johnson catalogue will be constantly remembered. That means that both political and nonpolitical eyes will carefully scrutinize his every move on the bench...
Heath was the favorite of the party's Young Turks, who hesitated to press his candidacy too hard for fear of seeming "pushy." They knew him as the Tories' chief front-bench fighter against Prime Minister Harold Wilson's finance bill. Tough, computer-quick, he also loomed as the intellectual innovator behind the scenes, having been assigned by Sir Alec to preside over a rethinking of basic Tory policy. Maudling, by contrast, had been nearly invisible as shadow foreign secretary in the Commons, unable to attack Wilson effectively, since Labor's foreign policy is one with...
...game. Sarah Hewitt is the "scarlet woman of Bickerton" in the London exurbs, squired everywhere by the hearty Derek while her husband puts his life into his work in the City. Things are not what they seem: Sarah has not earned her letter at all, but is merely a bench-warmer wrestling around in the raw without ever quite coming to the point. Even when Sarah moves on to a more serious infatuation with impecunious Old Boy Stephen Hunter, their long awaited red-letter day turns out to be a nightmare: Stephen is impotent except when he is asleep...