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...into an administrative backroom--the Senate Rules and Administration committee which had never before undertaken a major investigation. The committee usually oversees the Senate Restaurant, the Botanical Gardens, and the painting and statuary on the Hill. In committee, two major problems arose. Three of the Democratic members preferred to defer to a subcommittee headed by the less than energetic Carl Hayden. The chairman, B. Everett Jordan (D-N.C.) refused. Secondly, an impartial counsel had to be brought in from cutside the Senate. The committee seemed on the verge of an investigation of the ethical standards of members...
Early this fall, President Pusey said that the University would defer to the wishes of the Kennedy family. The city Council indicated last spring that it too would accept the library on the Bennett St. site...
...many Harvard students, to study abroad is becoming an increasingly remote prospect. In the past most undergraduates seeking foreign education have simply taken a year off, traveling and studying at their leisure. But, since most draft boards refuse to defer a student not working directly toward degree requirements, the recent lowering of the draft age to 21 has barred many from taking leaves of absence...
What's Reasonable? Black was often in hot opposition to his social friend and judicial enemy, Justice Frankfurter, who believed that "judicial restraint" required judges to defer to administrators and legislators as being more expert and closer to the public will. Unwise policies should be corrected at the ballot box, Frankfurter argued; it is neither democratic nor efficient for nine lifetime judges to issue rigid orders about matters best left to elected compromisers...
...spokesman for national Selective Service headquarters in Washington said yesterday that the Army would not defer a student who takes a year off between college and graduate school, even if he has been accepted by a grad school. "They're on their own after they leave college, and they run a good chance of being drafted," he said...