Word: craig
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When Manhattan Attorney Mark Lane asked to sit in on the Warren Commission's hearings as attorney for Lee Harvey Oswald, Commission Counsel J. Lee Rankin stiffly refused. Last week the commission changed its mind. It named Walter E. Craig, president of the American Bar Association, to defend Oswald's interests, with the right to examine "every facet of the case...
Earl Warren personally asked Craig to take the job. Craig, who has been confirmed by the Senate as a federal judge in Arizona, pondered for a few days, then agreed, as a "public service of the legal profession." While praising Craig's appointment, Eugene Rostow, dean of the Yale Law School, had a further suggestion. International concern over the circumstances of President Kennedy's death, said Rostow, would best be satisfied if commission hearings were public, "as nearly as possible in the familiar pattern of a trial...
Quiet Brooding. Chief credit for Swarthmore's current drive goes to President Courtney Craig Smith, 47, an Iowa-born Rhodes scholar with a Ph.D. from Harvard, who was teaching English at Princeton when Swarthmore picked him in 1953. A resolutely "academic president," meaning that he shuns fund raising, Smith is a fulltime faculty recruiter. He personally interviews even temporary instructors, says that "what it's all about is how to get a student and a teacher together and ensure that something exciting happens...
...Craig Stapleton (1) lost 3-1. Number two man Mat Hall dropped his contest 3-2, after having taken a 2-1 lead at the three-game break. John Harwood lost 3-1 at number four...
...Craig said lawyers, through their associations, are especially qualified to promote social reform, especially by promoting order. Freely admitting his depature from the topic, Countryman emphasized the lawyer's "special competency" for a conservative role in the legal system...