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...Martha's Vineyard for 38 years, Boyle must control the tone as well as the direction of questioning in the "nonaccusatory" proceeding. A 1929 graduate of what was then the Southeastern Massachusetts Law School, Boyle, 62, served as Dukes County Superior Court clerk for 27 years before former Governor John A. Volpe appointed him to the District Court bench in 1961. Some observers question his judicial competence, and one acquaintance asserts that Boyle was so innocent of the law that he thought he could remain superior court clerk even after his appointment to the District Court...
...friends describe Esther, 26, as sophisticated, reasonably chic and tough-minded. "In contrast to some of the other girls in the office," recalls one of Robert Kennedy's former aides, "she gave the impression of having something else in her life besides working for Robert Kennedy. For some of the younger girls, that was all there was." Esther's mother is a former Democratic National Committeewoman from Connecticut. Esther worked for the Senate subcommittee on government reorganization before she joined R.F.K.'s staff in 1968. She now assists the vice president of the Urban Institute in Washington...
...exchange was touched off by, of all people, Dean Rusk. Breaking a seven-month silence on the subject of Viet Nam, the former Secretary of State told a University of Wisconsin audience that there had recently been an "almost total lack" of North Vietnamese infiltration into the South. Since such a development could be an important signal of Hanoi's willingness to reduce the level of combat, newsmen the next morning eagerly clustered around the State Department's spokesman, Robert J. McCloskey...
...realm that includes everything from transoceanic cables to communications satellites. For more than two months, President Nixon has been searching for a new chairman to take charge of the commission's expanding responsibilities. Some time this week, the President is expected to announce his choice for the nomination: former Republican National Chairman Dean Burch...
Died. Ismail Azhari, 69, former President of the Sudan; of a heart attack; in Khartoum. A veteran of British colonial jails, Azhari was elected Prime Minister in 1954 following the pullout of British troops, and guided the Sudan to full independence in 1956. Toppled from power six months later, he bided his time until 1964, when he helped overthrow the country's military dictatorship and a short time later emerged as the Sudan's first President only to be overthrown himself in May of this year. "In a backward country, prison is the politician's university...