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...since been whittled down to about 50%, and the Democratic Senate, fearing more attrition, has pigeonholed many Eisenhower judicial nominations (25 lay unconfirmed last week), and has refused for three years to act on an urgent Administration bill to create 45 new judges' jobs in areas where docket backlogs delay decisions by as much as 3½ years...
...knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital of Vigan (pop. 24,000), where 70 have been murdered in the past two years, there are 214 back murder cases on the docket, some dating...
...back in the air in a month." But the Marine Corps had other ideas. The medics were not likely to certify him for duty that early, although his injuries seemed to be remarkably minor. Even if they did, Pilot Rankin's next duty, according to orders on the docket, will be a nine-month general-staff course at Quantico, where good officers get better and a pilot can still get enough flight time to keep his hand...
...hired troops dropped by the wayside, Goldfine tried to have the case thrown out of federal court on the claim that his Washington hotel room had been bugged by a former investigator for the subcommittee, but, although his claim was true, the contempt charge remained on the docket. Last week, when he came up for trial, Goldfine, 68, switched his plea from not guilty to nolo contendere (no contest), threw himself on the mercy of the court. Said Federal Judge James Morris: Goldfine's plea is a "complete vindication of the committee. [It] admits all of the relevant facts...
Bender said that the Admissions Committee will "go through our docket"--with special attention to applications from voluntary commuters--and then report back to Bundy, who will make the final decision on how many students to admit...