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Improved Box Score. Inevitably, most of John Kennedy's new judges will be deserving Democrats. The Administration, for obvious political reasons, turned down an A.B.A. appeal to preserve the bipartisan status quo of the present bench division (157 Democrats. 159 Republicans). The trend toward bench Democracy has already caused some agitation. Boston legal circles complain that the Attorney General has been toying with the nomination of Municipal Judge Francis Morrissey to a new Massachusetts district judgeship. A gladhanding Democratic politician, Morrissey has had little trial experience as a lawyer, but he is a longtime friend of Joe Kennedy...
Home from a tour of the Philippines, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 81, who had his differences with the last Democratic President, received an unexpected invitation to a White House luncheon with a bipartisan body of Government leaders. After President Kennedy praised MacArthur for his "triumphant" tour, the general thanked the President for making him "feel a part of the current scene." Later the vigorous vintage soldier offered his impressions of the onetime sailor in the White House: "He seems to have changed very little since he was one of my PT-boat commanders in the Pacific...
...Controller Arthur Levitt, 61, a respected vote getter ever since he survived Nelson Rockefeller's 1958 Republican blitz into Albany. Levitt is a product of New York schools, from P.S. 19 to Columbia University; he served on the board of education before running for controller, and has won bipartisan praise for cautiously watchdogging state funds...
...there was more to it than that. Two district attorneys, the city investigation commissioner and a bipartisan state investigation soon turned up evidence, as a foretaste of corruption, that 57 current and former school-construction employees had cashed $50,000 in gift certificates from contractors. Said Theobald: "Stupidity, skulduggery, or both...
...explosion was immediate. "A cheap and partisan trick," snapped Richard Nixon. Senate Republican Leader "Ev" Dirksen declared that Udall apparently wanted to become "Secretary of the Exterior and take over a domain in which he has no business." And President Kennedy, struggling to achieve a bipartisan atmosphere, said he was "strongly opposed to anyone within or without the Administration at tempting to shift the responsibility...