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...chairmanship of the President's new Civil Rights Commission last week stepped retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed, 72, only four weeks after taking the job. "Upon reflection," he wrote the President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant...
...graduates' committee, under the chairmanship of Henry J. Friendly '23, was appointed to raise the other $500,000. The committee has raised most of the money from businessmen and foundations, and hopes to complete the campaign within the next few months. Law School graduates were not contacted because the committee felt that alumni had been giving "constant assistance" to the School every year...
...balmy Boca Raton last week, Florida's sunshine-spirited Governor LeRoy Collins found another opportunity to ladle out the easy-does-it philosophy that carried him to the chairmanship of the Southern Governors' Conference and a national reputation as one of the South's staunchest moderates. Collins urged convention-gathered members of the Southern Newspaper Publishers Association to "develop and defend a public atmosphere free of racial fears and bigotry." Declared he earnestly: the South must stop fighting the Supreme Court, discard the idea of massive resistance, "seize the opportunity to clear the emotional atmosphere and undertake...
...week's end Adenauer was putting the finishing touches on his new lineup. Now listed for Schäffer's place as Vice Chancellor was Ludwig Erhard, who would not only keep his post as Economics Minister, but also take over the, chairmanship of the Cabinet's Economic Committee. Erhard, as engineer of Germany's postwar prosperity, was clearly being rewarded for providing Adenauer with his best election issue. The coincidental fact that he is Protestant would also restore the Catholic-Protestant balance in the government. As the new Finance Minister, Adenauer named Franz Etzel, hitherto...
Died. Kenneth Douglas McKellar, 88, longtime (36 years) hell-raising Democratic Senator from Tennessee, self-styled "Big Uncle" of the TVA; of old age; in Memphis. Relentless in his prejudices, vicious in his vendettas, he used his chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee to browbeat his colleagues into line; popular in his home state, he was a head-bowing yesman to Memphis' late Boss Edward H. Crump, was beaten for a seventh term...