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...summer recess. This year the dispute over the California delegation to the Democratic Convention brought the Justices back to work in only the fourth special summer session in history. After that, the court firmly turned down two more bids for special hearings, on the Ellsberg case and on the Ripon Society challenge to the Republican delegate selection process. Even when the Justices have scattered around the country, however, the Supreme Court machinery continues to operate through an informal system of phone calls and couriers...
...Ripon Rip-Off. Monday was not doing so well either, until Lofton took it over a year ago. The son of a conservative Florida lawyer, the new editor never went to college but got his higher education as a reading-room attendant in the Library of Congress. By shrewdly publicizing the 20-odd letters he had written to Washington editors during the Goldwater campaign, Lofton got the job as editor of the Vermont Sunday News, owned by right-wing New Hampshire Publisher William Loeb. Three years later, Lofton went to Washington to edit the newsletter of the House Republican Campaign...
Last month the G.O.P.'s liberal Ripon Society pointed out that Lofton was on the masthead of New Guard, a newsletter that has been highly critical of certain Nixon policies. Lofton admits that the young New Guard conservatives are his friends, but has requested that his name be dropped from the masthead. He cites a letter from ten G.O.P. House members praising Monday as proof of his party loyalty. And he rips off Ripon: "I have my hands so full with the Democrats that I don't have time to respond to those so-called Republicans." The Democrats...
Your Harvard is a university that radiates thoughtful influence. The considered opinion of the Ripon Society, appreciating the moral excellence of the fighters of the freedom of Bangla Desh which is based on a grand democratic franchise, is expected to create an intellectual fervor in the freedom-loving America...
Governor Francis X. Sargent and Sen Edward Brooke (R-Mass.) failed to appear at the conference after the Agnew dinner despite alleged promises to the president of the Ripon society...