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...conservative Republicans, South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and Utah's Orrin Hatch. Later, when the issue reaches the Senate floor, Minority Leader Robert Dole will head the fight on Bork's behalf. The three key swing votes on the committee: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania and Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Last week DeConcini still did not know what to make of the controversial jurist. "I have read so much," he told TIME. "Sometimes he sounds like a moderate. At other times he seems -- well, his approach seems so odd. I think...
...members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, assuring the lawmakers that he would bring no prejudices to the court. Five Democratic committee members, however, are expected to vote against Bork, while five Republicans have declared their support. The three most likely swing votes: Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, Democrats Howell Heflin of Alabama and Dennis DeConcini of Arizona. Whatever the Judiciary Committee decides, the Bork nomination has become so controversial that the final battle over confirmation will take place in the full Senate...
...week's end White House aides had disclosed the names of nine potential successors, but several appeared to face difficulties. Hatch and Senator Howell Heflin of Alabama, a conservative Democrat, are likely to run afoul of a provision in Article I of the Constitution that prevents any member of Congress from being appointed to a federal position that was voted a salary increase during that term of office. This may keep the Senators from taking court seats, since Congress approved a pay increase for Supreme Court Justices last February...
...leaves Aunt Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney's cloistered Long Island estate for an extended visit with her mother, Gloria Morgan Vanderbilt, in lively Beverly Hills. There she goes for older men, like the tall, dark and elusive Howard Hughes. She writes to a friend that she is to wed Van Heflin ("You've probably heard about him because he's a famous actor and he's going to be a Big Movie Star as soon as the movie he's doing now comes out"). But Mother V. pressures her into marrying Pat De Cicco, an undercapitalized Hollywood playboy who is tall...
...electronic intercepts, CIA files and covert-operation reports that may bear on the widening arms-for-hostages scandal. But one committee member wryly suggests that the extensive security precautions may be the best guarantee that information will get out. If Washington runs on leaks, says Alabama Democrat Howell Heflin, secrecy fuels the process. "You have to build all these top-secret, eyes-only bubbles in order that there can be leakin'," Heflin insists. "That's what it comes down...