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...years, the last, William Brennan, being named by Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower little more than a month before the 1956 election, when the nation also had a chance to change its leadership. Chief Justice John Marshall was appointed by his friend John Adams only a few weeks before Thomas Jefferson was to take office. If the G.O.P. argument were followed through, noted Mansfield, "any time a President was elected to a second term, he would become a lame duck on the very first day of that term." Johnson himself was heard to mutter: "Some people think that the presidency should...
...Thomas Jefferson George Washington
...riots commission, defeated her closest opponent in a field of twelve candidates to win the Democratic nomination for the Senate seat held by Republican Thruston Morton, who is retiring. Miss Peden, who owns a Kentucky radio station, set off the morning after her victory to campaign against Jefferson County Judge Marlow Cook, the Republican nominee. Despite Kentucky's G.O.P. leanings, Miss Peden is given an even chance of beating Cook, a Roman Catholic...
Apparently most prone to cancer, said Conference Chairman Claus B. Bahnson, professor of psychiatry at Philadelphia's Jefferson Medical College, are persons who deny and repress their emotions after experiencing personal loss or tragedy. Rather than expressing grief normally through mourning, such people, he said, channel their emotional response internally through the nervous system. This in turn upsets the body's hormonal balance. It may also affect immunological processes. Both of these mechanisms may play a significant role in controlling and combatting the rogue cell growth of cancer...
...party chiefs decided to admit Negroes to a statewide caucus that will meet at Jackson on July 2 to select 48 convention delegates and 24 alternates. In eight of the state's 82 counties, disciplined blacks and a smattering of young white allies elected 47 Negroes. Jefferson County, over 70% black, chose Civil Rights Leader Charles Evers as delegation chairman...