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...from Nixon's political point of view-which may account for the absence of panoply at the appointment. Haynsworth will be the first Southern addition to the Supreme Court since the civil rights upheaval began 15 years ago. Whatever the judge's qualifications, his appointment serves as partial payment by the Administration for the efforts of South Carolina's Strom Thurmond and others, who held five Southern and Border states for the G.O.P. against George Wallace's third-party depredations. Moreover, the choice fits neatly into Nixon's design for strengthening the Republicans...
...prospect, then, is for the Army and Marines to shrink proportionally more than the Air Force and the Navy. While McNamara emphasized a balance of forces and strengthened conventional elements as well as nuclear components of the arsenal, Laird is likely to encourage at least a partial return to the approach of the Eisenhower years. The stress then was on developing strategic nuclear weapons?long-range bombers, missiles...
...authorities investigating the death of Mary Jo Kopechne have caused nearly as much uncertainty as Edward Kennedy's own partial explanations of the accident that killed her. At first, there was almost total reluctance in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., to press the inquiry. Kennedy's plea of guilty to a charge of leaving the scene of an accident seemed to end the legalities. Now, at least one more chapter in the tortured proceeding is assured...
When he is absolutely certain, he bets--usually $1500 at a clip. In the Amstel race he was more than certain and he bet much more. In the evening he returns to his club deep in the heart of New York. He is under thirty, single and partial to yellow shirts...
...questions. The New York Times, which had begun its coverage in a mild and reticent way but gradually stepped it up in intensity, ran an editorial under the headline STILL A TRAGEDY AND A MYSTERY. Said the Times: "His emotion-charged address leaves us less than satisfied with his partial explanations for a gross failure of responsibility, and more than ever convinced that the concerned town, county and state officials of Massachusetts have also failed in their duty thoroughly to investigate this case because of the political personality involved...