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...where he also earned his law degree in 1949. He then began building a long string of firsts, such as the highest-ranking black (as an assistant to an Under Secretary of Labor) in the Eisenhower Administration and the first black partner in a major New York law firm. Nelson Rockefeller appointed him to two interim judgeships, in 1959 and 1960, but Pierce lost twice in elections to full 14-year terms because of heavy Democratic opposition...
Until Reagan completes announcing his top appointments, the transition team-full of contending ideologues and power seekers-will remain the capital's center of leaks and plants. Jack Nelson, Washington bureau chief of the Los Angeles Times, has been cautious about playing the appointees game, which he believes some of his colleagues have been "writing too hard" and proclaiming as certain. "People have been floating too many rumors; we don't know how accurate they are, and I don't think anyone else does." He has watched the Republican team float names just to see how much...
Michael F. Nelson '84, the student who filed the Health Board complaint, said yesterday that despite petitions, calls and complaints to Buildings and Grounds officials and Robert I. Mortimer, the superintendent in charge of the Yard dorms, conditions have improved only minimally. "I'm hoping the Cambridge people can figure out who controls the heat around here, because I can't," he added...
...Warren is a Rhodes scholar, a classicist, and the South's answer to Robert Frost. He is swapping reunion talk with two other farm hands from central casting, Psychologist Lyle Hicks Lanier and Novelist Andrew Nelson Lytle. These three men are all that is left of a famous band of twelve Southerners, a lot of them poets, a lot of them from Vanderbilt, who 50 years ago published an alternately brilliant and baffling manifesto called I'll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition...
Dwight Eisenhower passed on his dogeared copies to Secret Service men; former Israeli Defense Minister Ezer Weizman is an avid fan; so is Ronald Reagan's campaign press secretary, Lyn Nofziger. Tom Landry packs a volume with his Dallas Cowboys playbook for road trips; Country Star Willie Nelson has a coveted signed edition. Straight through the heartland of America, truck drivers pass up the centerfold magazines at diesel stops to buy a copy of his latest paperback; thousands of folks from Santa Fe, N. Mex., to Savannah, Ga., line up for his autograph on his frequent tours...