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...Chief Executive has ever had more judicial posts to fill at one time than Non-Lawyer John Fitzgerald Kennedy. Deaths, vacancies and recess appointments that required resubmission to the Senate gave him 33 jobs to fill for a start. Last May the Democratic Congress, having delayed for more than a year with partisan forethought, passed a bill providing for 73 desperately needed new District and Appellate Court judgeships. In all, Kennedy now has the power to appoint more than one-fourth of the federal bench. Since judges are appointed for life, John Kennedy's choices will have a powerful...
...these charges, with supporting evidence by eminent medical men, were in the records of the U.S. Senate's Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee last week when Chairman Estes Kefauver adjourned its hearings for a summer recess. They were just what the Senator wanted to back up his contention that the laws relating to safety, testing, efficacy, pricing and promotion of drugs are in need of a drastic overhaul...
...Class of 1911 returned for its junior year to be met with the news that William James, Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, had died during the summer recess. In a CRIMSON editorial, James was called Harvard's "greatest figure in the world of thought...
...conference ground to a recess amid vague hopes that Kennedy and Khrushchev might have some new ideas at Vienna. The peace talks at Ban Namone, deep in the jungle, had dwindled to thrice-a-week meetings between second-stringers. Pro-Western Premier Prince Boun Oum flew off to one of his favorite places, the Riviera, ostensibly to talk to Sihanouk...
...Squirming, No Recess. The problems were noise and rootlessness. But some months later, when Atkins tested his teachers' reactions by announcing that he was going to put in walls, they cried, "Give us back our contracts." The pleasure of moving each child at his own pace far outweighed the problems, and the kids were visibly broadened by mixing with all ages...