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...committee. More important the committee makeup has shifted sharply against him: five of its 15 members are new. Even though Church was able to eliminate one Republican seat, he faces far more conservative membership than Sparkman did. Gone are liberal Republican Clifford Case and moderate Republicans Robert Griffin and James Pearson. Instead, Archconservatives S.I. Hayakawa of California, Jesse Helms of North Carolina and Richard Lugar of Indiana are likely to oppose Church strongly, and flamboyantly, on many issues. The committee is split almost evenly along ideological lines...
...films being premiered this weekend is by Carpenter Center's animation teacher, Kathy Rose, featured in argument with her characters in her film pencil Bookings. Much of the recent independent animation in the U.S. has been done by one-time VES 153 teachers and students. George Griffin taught it last year, Mary Beams Phillips the year before. Frank Mouris, who won an Academy Award, Eliot Noyes, famous for his sand film Sandman, and Caroline Leaf, whose experiments have been so numberous and noteworthy the last Center Screen showing will be devoted to her work--all are old friends of Carpenter...
...will their votes be weighted according to population? How long can the convention go on? Above all, must it stick to the issue for which it was called, or is it free to consider other matters as well? The convention can certainly be restricted, declares U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell. "Limits can be set," he says. "Congress has a duty to do so." Paul Freund of the Harvard Law School agrees: "Since the Constitution is silent on details, the details become a political question. Since Congress issues the call, it can define the jurisdiction of the convention...
...Michael Griffin Aberdeen...
...promised that his committee would go along with the President's choices. But he balked when it came to the more numerous federal district judges. Instead of a Mississippi commission coming up with five names for a judgeship and the President choosing one, Eastland reportedly told Attorney General Griffin Bell: "I'll hand you a slip of paper with one name on it, and that'll be the judge...