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Brown's public image hardly fits the diplomatic pattern. Ebullient and explosive, he managed to so rile Nikita Khrushchev during a Labor Party dinner in London a few years ago that the Soviet leader ended up praising the capitalistic Tories as by far the easier of the two British parties to get along with. On the evening of President Kennedy's assassination, Brown emoted tearfully on a London television show about his friendship with Jack-and got a bad press for letting down the stiff upper lip in public. But those who know Brown better testify that...
More Shifts? On a lower Cabinet level, Richard Grossman, a favorite of Labor's rebellious left wing, moved from Housing to Leader of the House, a position that will make him responsible for corralling the rebel Laborites, whose abstentions have been embarrassing to the Prime Minister. The former Leader of the House, Herbert Bowden, moved to the Ministry for Commonwealth Affairs, replacing Arthur Bottomley, whose inability to settle the Rhodesian crisis made him some thing of a liability. Still, Bottomley was not expelled from the Cabinet; instead he was shifted to the Ministry for Overseas Development, a post that...
...more imaginative." Added the Times: "Too many changes too frequently are not a sign of strong government." But as Wilson departed at week's end for a two-week vacation in the Scilly Isles, his aides hinted that other major shifts would be announced soon-probably before the Labor Party's annual meeting in October...
A.B.A. committees will labor for months ahead on a variety of legal and national problems. Studies in the works include the 25th Amendment on presidential disability; Electoral College reform; modernization of the A.B.A.'s 60-year-old canons of ethics; and expanded legal services for all citizens in all walks of life. The A.B.A. also voted to admit law students to associate membership beginning with their freshman year...
...similar law last year. The N.A.A.C.P is compiling lists of text it considers fair, vows "community action and protest" against school boards that approve books it deems "distorted or segregated." Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell will question textbook publishers at hearings on the topic by his House Education and Labor Committee late this month...