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SUPREME COURT. After minimal debate, the Senate voted 89 to 1 to confirm Nixon's nomination of Lewis Powell, the Richmond lawyer who is a past president of the American Bar Association. The lone dissenting ballot was cast by Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Said Senator Henry Jackson: "One wonders why it has taken so long to propose a man of Mr. Powell's stature...
...After an elaborate round of wheels-within-wheels politicking, Purdue University Dean Earl Butz, Nixon's nominee to replace Clifford Hardin as Secretary of Agriculture, won Senate confirmation, 51-44. At first it looked as though Butz might be beaten. Butz was vulnerable because he seemed more sympathetic to big agribusiness than to the smaller farmers. Still, enough Democrats went along to confirm him-including, oddly, such Midwestern liberals as Indiana's Birch Bayh and Michigan's Philip Hart. Why? Maybe the Democrats only wanted to make their point and then leave Nixon stuck in 1972 with...
Because false grails have been hailed in the past, the U.S. scientists reporting the new development this week used guarded language. Further tests are scheduled to confirm the find, details of which are scheduled for publication in the British journal Nature. Still, Drs. Robert McAllister and Murray Gardner are willing to say: "We're almost certain that this is the virus we're after...
...Viet Nam War, as the Pentagon papers seem to confirm, entered most Americans' consciousness almost surreptitiously, until in the later 1960s they found themselves fighting, to their own bewilderment, the longest war of their national history. Today the process seems reversed as the U.S. fades out of the war. No one is ready to declare the war over for Americans while they are still dying in it. But the war that came without declaration is also ending-for the U.S. at least-gradually, again without formalities, like the Doppler effect, as some great baleful engine screams by and then...
Such scenes are repeated in other cities, epiphanies of the old Kennedy magic. They confirm what all pollsters and politicians know?that against all expectations of two years ago, Edward Moore Kennedy has become a compelling if not predictable presence in the 1972 presidential race. Insistently disavowing any interest in running, shadowed by that night at Chappaquiddick, the last Kennedy brother must nonetheless be regarded as a major candidate for the Democratic nomination...