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...people are in the process of choosing a new government. By their votes in November the people will designate new leadership and new direction for our nation. Of course, a lame-duck President has the constitutional power to submit nominations for the Supreme Court. But the Senate need not confirm them ?and, in this case, should not do so." Richard Nixon, who thinks that he will embody Griffin's "new leadership," agreed, not surprisingly, that Johnson should postpone all court appointments until...
...national character, a stain that had its start with the first settlement of a hostile continent. For the young people, in particular, who had been persuaded by the new politics of Robert Kennedy and Eugene McCarthy to recommit themselves to the American electoral system, the assassination seemed to confirm all their lingering suspicions that society could not be reformed by democratic means...
...first he believed the liquid was produced in the moth's digestive system. Analysis of the moth's digestive apparatus showed that there was a large amount of protein-digesting enzyme present but it was not certain this was the same enzyme as in the liquid. To confirm that the enzymes were the same, Kafatos became a bug surgeon, removing the midgut of twenty moths. As expected, none of the moths produced any liquid. Yet he was not satisfied with the result: it seemed too easy. He later realized that the pupae he used had been refrigerated for some time...
...some that were finally identified in 1967 as human skull fragments. Still picking away in a 10-ft.-deep shaft last month, the scientists found two additional major skull fragments, finger and wrist bones, rib fragments, an eye socket and what is probably a leg bone, enabling them to confirm that the early human was similar to modern man and had died around...
...believe that they will be drafted after graduation," sophomore Barry A. Margolin, undergraduate coordinator of the Union, said recently. "Seniors think their draft boards are different-but 70 per cent of them are going to end up in Vietnam." The psychological impact of recent events has been to confirm these seniors' hopes of legally avoiding the draft. The immediate threat now seems less dangerous...