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...reason that Tubman seems so indispensable to some Liberians is that few possible successors are in sight. The most prominent candidate: William "Shad" Tubman Jr., 34, Harvard-bred member of Liberia's most influential public relations firm...
...expanded last year from nine to thirteen judges. This week the final vacancy will be filled when Claude Feemster Clayton, 58, takes the path of office. When news of his nomination came down, waiting lawyers on both sides of the integration fence breathed sighs of relief. Mississippi-born and -bred, Clayton is segregationist by heritage and inclination, but as a federal district judge, he slowly-and no doubt painfully-put aside the prejudices of a lifetime...
What little movement there was bred new delay and debate. A Senate-House conference committee ended a two-month impasse over the foreign aid authorization bill, recommending $2.67 billion-$780 million less than the Administration had requested. The conference also decided to abolish a loan program that finances allied arms purchases in the U.S. Meanwhile, a House appropriations subcommittee drew up a different measure that provided even less money and more restrictions on military aid. The bill raising Social Security benefits that is emerging in the Senate is far more generous than the one already voted in the House, while...
Evident Split. The diffuse sources of dissent have bred continual schisms. The basic split, which is becoming more evident every day to many in the movement, is between those individuals and organizations that are simply antiwar (though not necessarily for unilateral withdrawal from South Viet Nam) and those that are avowedly anti-American. Among the former can be counted Editor Norman Cousins, the United Auto Workers' Victor Reuther, Newark's Auxiliary Bishop John J. Dougherty, and such mild but pervasive agglomerates as the Quakers' Religious Society of Friends (123,000 members) and Women Strike for Peace...
...most inspiring quality of Harvard's football team lfast year was its ability to move the ball consistently on the ground. Nothing bred confidence more than Harvard's 269 yards rushing per game (best in the nation). It was also true that Ric Zimmerman threw the ball more effectively than any Crimson quarterback in years, but he actually did not pass any more than John McCluskey had done the year before. He averaged only 85 yards a game by passing...