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...three-star admiral in 1957, Anderson was named chief of staff to Pacific Fleet Commander Felix Stump. But in order to fulfill the old Navy tradition that an admiral's flag is never really earned until it has been flown at sea, Anderson asked for and got a reduction to two-star rank so that he could command a carrier division. He got the star back in 1959 when he took over command of the Sixth Fleet...
McCloskey noted that with the resignation this August of Justice Felix Frank-further, the argument for Supreme Court conservatism and self-restraint "lost its most powerful intellectual champion." He added that if one of the two recently appointed justices joins the four-man libertarian group, there will then be the potential for "dramatic reversals" of previous opinions, and for greater willingness "to take up the cudgel against state invasions of rights regarded as federally protected...
...Coca-Cola plant. As nearly as anyone can estimate, Ahmad's annual income was about $16 million, his expenditures about $21 million. He raised money by adding charges to customs duties and levying internal tariffs on trucks and caravans. In times past, fertile Yemen, known as Arabia Felix, was the granary of Arabia, but it now must buy wheat and butter abroad. Exports of Yemen's top-grade Mocha coffee dropped from 25,000 tons to 12,000, and last year to 5,000 tons. Starved and graft-ridden, Yemen's 4,500,000 people began exporting...
Seated at his desk one day last April, Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, 79, suffered a mild stroke. A few days later, a second stroke left him partially paralyzed on his left side. His mind remained keen, and he clung to hopes of returning to the bench at the start of the new Supreme Court session in October. But last week, on the advice of doctors, Frankfurter sent a letter of resignation to President Kennedy. "I need hardly tell you, Mr. President.'' he wrote, "of the reluctance with which I leave the institution whose concerns have been the absorbing interest...
...Between Us and Tyranny" Called to the telephone while dressing for dinner, Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was still in his B.V.D.s...