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...Louis' greatest assets are its lightning speed on the basepaths and its spectacular defense. Detroit counters with its awesome power and its never-say-die attitude. Pitching and bench strength are about equal for both clubs...
Forward Ahmen Yehia tallied one of his two goals, and Captain Scott Robertson hit once as Munro cleared the bench to give his starters a rest. And by the final whistle, it had turned into just another Harvard-Tufts soccer game...
...Senators will vote against shutting off debate, leaving far fewer than the two-thirds needed for cloture. After two failures on a cloture vote, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield is likely to withdraw the nomination, and the court will open its new session next month with Warren back on the bench...
...done nothing else, Abe Fortas has surely shattered the standard notion that a Supreme Court Justice leads a sequestered, monastic life that takes him from bench to book-lined study and back again. After admitting that he had continued to counsel Lyndon Johnson while serving on the court, Fortas cited several precedents to the Senate committee considering his nomination as Chief Justice. Among others, Presidents Washington, Jackson, Lincoln, Coolidge, Hoover and Roosevelt all had valued advisers on the court, Fortas recalled...
...could also have pointed to his own colleagues. William Douglas played poker with Roosevelt and advised Kennedy on a wide range of matters, including the Vienna meeting with Khrushchev and the Cuban missile crisis. Chief Justice Earl Warren served President Johnson by leaving the bench to head the investigation of John Kennedy's assassination. Thurgood Marshall joined Vice President Humphrey's supporting entourage on a good-will tour of Africa last winter...