Word: coxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...decision to uphold the ruling so damaging, it is gratifying that the University has decided to prepare an amicus curiae brief to defend the California university's practice of allotting 16 places in each class for minority students. If the U.S. Supreme Court decides to accept the case, Archibald Cox '34, Williston Professor of Law, will write the brief for Harvard. Cox wrote a similar brief two years ago defending the preferential admissions policy of the University of Washington Law School in the DeFunis case. But the Supreme Court did not rule on that case, and the Davis decision...
Other top candidates for appointment are Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who gave Carter crucial backing in the Michigan primary; Jesse Hill, president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; Herman Russell, an Atlanta contractor; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.; John Cox, a Delta Airlines consultant who was the only well-known black to support Carter for Georgia Governor in 1970; Texas Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. Many others are hoping for a berth. Quips a black Democratic official in Atlanta: "Half the blacks here already have their bags packed to come to Washington...
Junior Roosevelt Cox, whom Irion calls "the best rebounder and shot blocker on the team" walked out of practice on Friday and may not rejoin the squad. "He just decided to bag it," said Irion...
...Cox, although he fought the despicable Republican architects of what Dash sees as a blueprint for a police state, becomes as much an enemy as Baker. Dash welcomes Cox and James Vorenberg, professor of Law, to Washington, but soon recoils in horror as Cox suggests that the time for the Senate's investigation has ended. Cox argued at the time that he was fully competent to investigate and prosecute the Watergate transgressions himself and didn't want the Senate committee interfering or prejudicing possible trials with excessive publicity. Dash, naturally, defended his position with vigor, and reports the following exchange...
...Cox posed some further objections about the committee's publicity and ended up by saying, "What you're really saying to me, Sam, is that I should go back to Harvard...