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...knowledgeable New Frontiersman candidly put it, "Goldberg wanted the job badly.'' It is always risky to predict the ideological direction a man may take when he dons the robe. Old New Dealer Frankfurter, for one. came to stand as a judicial conservative, in the sense that he tended to interpret the Supreme Court's powers narrowly (see box). But on his record, Goldberg would seem likely to make the court lopsidedly liberal. Only a few months ago, New Frontiersman Byron White succeeded Charles Evans Whittaker, a Republican of conservative leanings, tipping the wobbly balance between liberal and conservative blocs. With...
...number of separate, if tangled, issues. Among them: > THEOLOGY. A self-styled "evangelical" Presbyterian, Merriam was called to the Broadway church because his theological views coincided with those of his predominantly conservative congregation. In doctrine, he adheres strictly to the teachings of the Westminster Confession of Faith; his interpretations of Bible passages tend to be literal. Merriam argues that he was removed because his orthodox theology did not sit well with liberals in the presbytery who interpret Scripture and the confession more freely than he does. In answer, presbytery spokesmen say that his fellow ministers did not quarrel so much...
Brown helped McCarthy, now Minnesota's junior Senator, win re-election to a seat in Congress, and was appalled at the amount of Protestant bigotry that cropped up around election day. Ever since, he has tried to interpret Catholic problems to his fellow Protestants, as well as Protestant problems to Catholics. A talented writer (he has published some first-rate reminiscences in The New Yorker}, Brown shares with his old teacher Reinhold Niebuhr an interest in trying to make theology relevant to the solution of contemporary social problems. One motive in moving to a secular campus...
...tenth-grade education, who has tried to register several times a year for the past eleven years, tried again last week. He failed. Voting Registrar Theron C. Lynd, who has already been cited for contempt for failing to obey a federal court order, asked Barnes to copy and interpret a section of the Mississippi constitution. Lynd was, as usual, dissatisfied with the result. According to the Justice Department, other Negroes found illiterate by Lynd include five college graduates, one of whom was a National Science Foundation Scholarship winner...
Time and again he made it clear that Brazil intends to maintain its "independent" foreign policy, including relations with Communist Cuba and the Soviet bloc. But he did not interpret independence as neutrality; he expects Brazil to pursue democracy's objectives-among them a desire to end Communism in Cuba...