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SUPREME COURT. After minimal debate, the Senate voted 89 to 1 to confirm Nixon's nomination of Lewis Powell, the Richmond lawyer who is a past president of the American Bar Association. The lone dissenting ballot was cast by Oklahoma Senator Fred Harris. Said Senator Henry Jackson: "One wonders why it has taken so long to propose a man of Mr. Powell's stature...
...became a self-taught lawyer only to discover that Indians need not apply to the bar of New York, went on to become a civil engineer, a friend of Ulysses S. Grant when the future President was a clerk in a harness store, served with Grant from Vicksburg to Richmond as his military secretary, and because of his excellent penmanship wrote out the terms of surrender at Appomattox at Grant's request. After the War, Brigadier General Parker became Grant's Commissioner of Indian Affairs, a position he held until the combined political pressure from the land speculators, angered...
There seems to be little doubt about the swift, sure confirmation of Powell, 64. A Richmond lawyer, he sailed smoothly through his relatively brief appearance before the committee. Mainly a judicial conservative, Powell has a distinguished legal record and once served as president of the American Bar Association. During his questioning he emphasized the work he had done for liberal causes, especially his efforts to keep Virginia schools open in opposition to the official state policy of "massive resistance" to integration during the 1950s. Consequently, the committee liberals -Bayh, Edward Kennedy, Philip Hart of Michigan and John Tunney of California...
...children, in fact, are handling the situation as well as any. Though he could have sent them to any public school in Richmond-the Governor's mansion is excluded from busing plans because it is on state rather than city land-Holton has put his elder daughter, Tayloe, 15, into a high school that is 88% black; Anne, 13, and Woody, 12, attend a middle school 86% black, and Dwight, 5, a school that is 50% black. All seem to have thrived...
...solvency to a number of quite successful productions in the past two years. During the first two weekends in December, the Quincy House Drama Society is renting the Leverett House Theatre for a production of Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night directed by David Richmond...