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...third topic on the docket and Bender was asked to report on "the parietal regulations on entertainment of woman guests in college dormitories." It is seldom that such a purely undergraduate matter is placed on the agenda of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The faculty has the seldom used power to ask the Administrative Board to reconsider its decisions...
Meanwhile, Superior Court spent the day clearing its docket of other cases. Proceedings were held up when an 80-year-old witness fell sick in court, and the McLeod trial was excused until today...
...trial was originally scheduled for yesterday morning, but an earlier case on the docket took up the whole day in court...
...year, Douglas has been trying to get the President to fill three vacancies on the Illinois federal bench, where the docket is badly overcrowded. By ancient senatorial privilege, as the state's only Democratic Senator, he is entitled to pick the men whom the President will nominate. He sent the White House three names, one of them a past president of the Chicago Bar Association. Jake Arvey's Democratic machine boys okayed Douglas' choice. But Harry Truman put off his decision, nursing a growing grudge...
...terminal when two Harlan policemen and a friend got out of a police car and walked over. One of the three shot him through the head. At week's end, a special grand jury returned murder indictments in both cases and put them on the May docket. Harlan's 132-year record was still intact...