Word: griffins
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...list of people who have agreed to be candidates includes Leslie F. Griffin '70, president of Harvard Afro; Joel R. Kramer '69, president of the CRIMSON; Profit, president of PBH; Tracy B. Strong teaching fellow in Social Studies; Barry F. O'Connell, tutor in History and Lit.; James E. Thomas, senior advisor to freshmen; and Thomas J. Cottle '59, lecturer on Social Relations. Roose said the final slate will represent a wide range of expertise and opinion...
...took on the week's principal business: President Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to be Chief Justice of the U.S. A formal vote to, close off a filibuster will not come until this week, but it is foredoomed. Fortas' opponents, led by Michigan Republican Robert Griffin, have considerably more than enough votes to block cloture and keep the talkathon going until the Administration gives...
...cloture. Last summer Dirksen gave the President his approval of the appointment. But as opposition to Fortas swelled-22 of the Senate's 37 Republicans are now against him-Dirksen's leadership has grown shaky, and he is not unmindful that as a rambunctious Congressman in 1965, Griffin helped turn aging Charles Halleck out of the House minority leadership...
Darkened Offices. The fight against Fortas was stepped up on two fronts. One was being carefully led on the Senate floor by Michigan Republican Robert P. Griffin. The other was pressed within the Senate Judiciary Committee by Republican Strom Thurmond, the gentleman Torquemada from South Carolina. Thurmond continued to ham mer at an emotional, if elusive issue: pornography. He condemned the fact that Fortas had voted with the court majority in a 5-to-4 decision holding that a Los Angeles exhibitor did not violate the law with his raunchy films. The ruling made it easier for U.S. exhibitors...
...that they had done sufficient damage to torpedo Fortas, the opposition forces on the committee agreed to send the matter to the Senate floor this week. There it will run into trouble-and not only on the pornography issue. The skillful managers of the case against Fortas, notably Senator Griffin, saw to it that new revelations about the Associate Justice were brought out almost every day. More doubts were raised by a disclosure last week that Fortas had accepted $15,000 for 18 hours of summer-school teaching at American University's law school. Though some other Justices accept...