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...spent his entire 21-year academic career at Michigan, rising from graduate teaching assistant to psychology professor to head of its College of Literature, Science and the Arts. At 40, he was the youngest man to hold the post. Ann Arbor considered him the logical successor to President Harlan Hatcher, who will retire in 1967; to keep him on campus, some faculty members suggested that Heyns be given a special executive position ranking above the university's six other vice presidents. "I am no disciplinarian," Heyns says, but he once squelched disorderly students, protesting the campus presence of former...
...four dissenters were not so sure. Justice Potter Stewart pointed out that the court did not examine the issue of whether TV actually prejudiced Estes' jurors, and he warned against any blanket rule that might stifle free press if and when TV becomes less obtrusive. Justice John M. Harlan cast the fifth vote to make a majority, but he urged the court to "proceed step by step in this unplowed field." If the next TV appeal involves different facts, Harlan implied, he may well shift his vote and convert the minority into the majority...
...case did the Supreme Court issue any further guidelines about what it considers to be constitutional reapportionment. This fact was caustically noted by Justice John Marshall Harlan in a dissent to the New York decision. Wrote Harlan, who had also dissented to the original one-man, one-vote ruling: "I am wholly at a loss to understand the Court's casual way of disposing of this matter. The Court should be willing to face up articulately to these difficult problems which have followed as a not unnatural aftermath of its reapportionment decisions of last term. These matters bristle with...
...great country worthy of the name," De Gaulle is said to have remarked recently, "does not have any friends." That is not the American definition of greatness. The State Department's Harlan Cleveland makes a shrewd and significant distinction between popularity and public support: the U.S. does not need to court popularity, but it wants and often needs support. It is easy to become cynical about world opinion and to conclude that it should be ignored completely. But to do so implies that world opinion is always against the U.S. and that the U.S. can do nothing about...
ORVILLE A. HARLAN Houston Stout Defense...