Word: robert
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...ROBERT J. RICHARDSON...
...last week the President was clearing the desk of his domestic problems, and getting ready for foreign problems to come. He conferred with Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans on next fiscal year's $81 billion budget, presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on next fiscal year's $41 billion defense budget. He took time out to reassure NATO's visiting Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of the U.S.'s strong support for NATO, to reassure the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Boss Vasily Emelyanov (see SCIENCE...
...Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert B. Meyner (unaffiliated) sidestepped the debate with a curt "no comment." Texas' Lyndon Johnson (Disciples of Christ) said nothing. California's Democratic Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, doubtless sharing the discomfort of fellow Catholic Kennedy, said "the question of the regulation of birth is something that I am not prepared to answer. I certainly don't believe this country has the right to impose upon any country any particular ideas it may have, nor [to] interfere with the religious practices of other countries...
...resentful. We have an obligation to other communities to fight." Merchandiser Morris Courington took the mike. "Some shyster came around and offered us about half what our house is worth. We called the real estate company, and they wouldn't even accept our listing." Mrs. Robert Ettinger, an engineer's wife, who moved over from Evanston after Negroes moved into the neighborhood, chimed in with word that the Ettingers had "taken a terrible licking" on the price of their Evanston house...
...only eight months after his election to eight more years on the bench, Michigan's Supreme Court Justice John D. Voelker, more widely known as best-selling Novelist Robert Trover (Anatomy of a Murder), made up his mind. He will soon resign from the court. "I must either leave the court or abandon writing," explained he. "And I feel the latter course a psychological impossibility [for] a writer who finds himself increasingly immersed in characters taking shape in his mind." To critics of his decision (notably Republican legislators in Lansing) the judge countered with a blunt opinion: "While other...