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Commencing 'Saturday, all University dining halls except Eliot House will be closed for the winter recess. All vacation meals taken at Eliot House will be charged on term bills...
...this moment of turmoil, a black U.S. Chevrolet with three stars on its bumper drove up to the tent, and India's strapping Lieut. General K. S. Thimayya stepped out. "This is absurd," said he. "It's got to stop." He promptly ordered a ten-minute recess for every tent, and instructed his officers to see that explanations were not dragged on after the P.W.s' intentions had been made clear. "Are you expecting any more trouble?" someone asked him. "Not from the P.W.s," he replied...
...Within five days after the announcement, Warren flew to Washington, arriving just 14 hours before he was sworn in. This week he was digging into his new job, facing one of the busiest and most important terms in the court's history. Before the court's next recess, it will probably have to dispose of more than 1,200 cases. Most explosive on the list: five cases challenging the constitutionality of segregation in public schools. Warren is known to be against race discrimination, but he also is known to be a guardian of states' rights...
Blasting what he termed a situation in which the judge 'has one eye over his shoulder at the Senate," Paul A. Freund, Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law, agreed with the letter except on the constitutionality of recess appointments. It's very unfair to Warren to have the President urge him to take the seat without calling a special session,' Freund said...
Although claiming that is is reasonably clear that recess appointments are constitutional, Professor Robert Braucher decried a position that has a judge writing an opinion while the Senate watches. "It would be a particularly bad thing if the Senate comes back in January and then held off on the appointment waiting to see what kind of opinions Warren writes. That would definitely be against the spirit of the constitution. But there are few cases coming up, and this whole problem is hypothetical if the Senate acts with reasonable promptness in January," Braucher concluded...