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ADMINISTRATIVE CURBS. Since assuming office in February, Attorney General Edward Levi has taken a number of steps to leash the FBI. For one thing, he has required that White House requests for FBI action be made in writing and through official channels. He also has instructed Kelley to report to him all improper requests; in his 2½ years as director, said Kelley, there have not been...
...President Ford's present Cabinet, the two outstanding intellects are probably Henry Kissinger and Attorney General Edward Levi, former president of the University of Chicago. Both are Jewish, which might or might not still be a barrier to the presidency. Kissinger, despite his current troubles with Congress, remains one of the most admired men in the nation; but like Jones of GE, he is disqualified (unless we amend the Constitution) by his foreign birth...
Wilson has, in fact, been acting president at Chicago since Edward Levi left last February to become U.S. Attorney General. Before that, Wilson, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford, was Levi's right-hand man as provost for five years, and earlier was dean of faculties. One of Wilson's toughest jobs as president will be to sustain the threeyear, $280 million fund drive designed to keep Chicago one of the top universities in the nation; started in June 1974, the fund drive has produced $110 million...
John Wilson, a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford, was provost at Chicago before becoming acting president in February, after Edward H. Levi left the post to become Attorney General...
...those who think it high time there was a woman on the court. And the so-called Jewish seat has been empty since Fortas' 1969 departure. Ford might look to his Cabinet, which includes Carla A. Hills, 41, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, and Attorney General Edward Levi, 64. Among other possibilities in the wide-open guessing game: Solicitor General Robert Bork, 48; California Republican Congressman Charles Wiggins, 47, and at least nine federal-appeals-court judges...