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McCloskey qualified his predictions with the reservation that no one really knows what judicial positions will be taken by Arthur Goldberg, appointed in August after Frankfurter's resignation, and Byron R. "Whizzer" White, appointed last March to replace Whittaker. The court term which began on Oct. 8 is the first one for both new justices...
...Byron Stookey, Jr., associate director of Advanced Standing, prepared the questionnaire and selected the non-seminar participants. Stookey said yesterday that three selection criteria were used: the field of concentration originally indicated by the student, his predicted rank list, and whether he attended a public or private school...
...Byron's lines suggest, Venetians long have been preoccupied with a ghastly civic problem: their lovely city is slowly sinking into the water. Already, in the stormy autumn and winter seasons, Venetians sometimes move through St. Mark's Square in gondolas, and housewives occasionally have to do their shopping in fishermen's boots...
When James Monroe issued his doctrine on Dec. 2, 1823, most of the world's great nations were ruled by kings or emperors, and most of their subjects were farmers or peasants. Byron and Beethoven were still living, Darwin and Marx were still children. The years since then have witnessed avalanches of change that have transformed the world beyond the imaginings of the men of Monroe's time. But the Monroe Doctrine survived all the transformations and remains today a living principle of national policy...
...Dealer Frankfurter, for one. came to stand as a judicial conservative, in the sense that he tended to interpret the Supreme Court's powers narrowly (see box). But on his record, Goldberg would seem likely to make the court lopsidedly liberal. Only a few months ago, New Frontiersman Byron White succeeded Charles Evans Whittaker, a Republican of conservative leanings, tipping the wobbly balance between liberal and conservative blocs. With Frankfurter gone, the old conservative bloc is now reduced to a chip: Tom Clark and John Marshall Harlan, occasionally joined by Potter Stewart...