Word: laws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than most Presidents-elect, Nixon relied heavily on the supporting cast he has learned to trust from close experience. Maurice Stans (Commerce) is a colleague from the Eisenhower days and a longtime Republican fund raiser. John Mitchell (Attorney General) was Nixon's law partner and campaign manager. Wisconsin Congressman Melvin Laird (Defense) has served Nixon occasionally as an adviser. California Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch (Health, Education and Welfare) is an old friend, campaign aide and confidant. In fact, Finch is matched in the boss's esteem only by William Pierce Rogers, Attorney General in the Eisenhower Administration...
...went to work early, Rogers at age 14 as a photographer's assistant. They had to scrape for their education: scholarships, some help from his family and income from an assortment of jobs (dishwasher, waiter, door-to-door salesman of brushes) got Rogers through college at Colgate and law school at Cornell. Both excelled as law students. They each married relatively young, Rogers to Adele Langston,* a classmate at Cornell Law, who gave up her own career to rear three sons and a daughter...
...Court ruled 6-3 that Congress did not intend in the Selective Service Law of 1967 to deny court appeal to men entitled to exemptions by statute. The law restricted the right of men to go to court to challenge the actions of their draft boards. Divinity students, persons under 19 years of age, military veterans, members of the National Guard and the Reserves, and sole surviving sons are affected by the high court decision...
Prior emphasized, however, that the Supreme Court placed limitations on this directive only in reference to students who are granted deferments by law. He said that he was happy with the decision on classification, but "it should have gone farther." The Selective Service Act should be declared unconstitutional, he believes, and he says he does not intend to cooperate with the Selective Service any more now than in the past...
...Huff won the 200-yard freestyle competition and Dan Kobick placed first in the 200-yard individual medley. Both these men, as well as Dave Law and Peter Mikhalevski, were members of the winning 400-yard free relay team...