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Fullback Bob Gray and outside Gerry Montero watched the game from the bench. High-scoring star Peter Bogovich sat out the first half, while linemates Solomon Gomez, Captain Scott Robertson, and Jaime Vargas limped through the game with an assortment of leg injuries. Goalie Richie Locksley, whose bruised ribs forced him out of the Brown game, managed to play for the entire contest...
Humphrey began as the mayor of Minneapolis, soon possessed an exaggerated reputation as a radical. Eventually he chose to fight liberal fights from the front bench, sacrificing individualism for advancement in the Sen ate and then to the vice presidency, losing old friends and associations and gaining new ones along the way. Now he has the backing of George Meanv and Henry Ford, Lyndon Johnson and Edward Kennedy, Richard Daley and George Ball...
...DANIEL: So far, I have not touched on my motives in the Czechoslovak question. I do not admit guilt, but have I any regrets? To some extent, I do. I regret very deeply the fact that with me on this bench is a young man whose personality is still unformed. I am speaking of [Vadim] Delone [a 21-year-old student and poet sentenced to 34 months at hard labor], whose character may be crippled by being sent to a prison camp. I regret, too, that the gifted, honest scholar [Konstantin] Babitsky [a 32-year-old Moscow philologist...
...rights lawyer in the South and it has been my privilege to appear before him on many occasions. I have also read every civil rights decision that he has written or participated in. Judge Thornberry was not and is not a "moderate by contrast with his peers" on that bench. He, together with Judges Tuttle, Wisdom and Brown form the liberal heart of the best federal appellate court in the country...
...nine Justices of the Supreme Court reassemble in Washington this week to begin a new session, all the panoply will be familiar. The robed Justices will file behind the long Honduras mahogany bench as usual and take their seats in the high-backed black leather chairs set against red velvet draperies. The bronze clock will strike 10 o'clock, and the court clerk will intone the traditional "Oyez! Oyez...