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When Presidential Candidate John F. Kennedy promised that he would pick each federal judge not by "his political party but his qualifications for the office," many welcomed his words as a pledge to scrap the ancient prerogative of the President to salt the federal bench heavily with members of his own party. But Kennedy, once in office, found the temptation politically irresistible. He renominated three Eisenhower candidates for the bench, but of the first 95 appointees picked by his own Administration, there was nary a Republican. Last week, Kennedy finally got around to appointing his first G.O.P. judge: Jesse Ernest...
Unfriendly Barriers. Europe and Japan can afford to do a lot of widening. Their economies have now become so robust-thanks in large part to $50 billion in U.S. aid during the postwar era-that they can comfortably scrap many anachronistic tariffs, quotas and excise taxes against U.S. imports. Equally important, the foreigners-notably the affluent French and Germans-could well afford to step up greatly their own foreign aid and thereby take some of the financial burden of the underdeveloped countries...
...Lithographic Technical Foundation in Manhattan, envision the day when such presses will replace the letterpress giants that now spew out the nation's metropolitan dailies and the large-audience magazines. Printing presses have a long life-25 years or more-and their proprietors are not anxious to scrap an investment of billions of dollars overnight. And since offset eliminates some of the mechanical departments, any wholesale conversion to offset would be asking for serious labor trouble. Nor has letterpress technology stood still. Among recent developments: a new plastic plate, called Dycril. that adapts offset's photographic process...
...which hung photographs of her dear, dead Albert. He goes so far as to describe a mysterious photostat sent to him years ago, and now unaccountably lost, purporting to be the pieced-together fragments of a love letter in the Queen's handwriting, fished from Brown's scrap basket. The basis of the bond between them, he speculates, may have been that Brown was a spiritualist medium through whom Victoria thought she was in touch with Albert...
Yale is 6-14 on the season, and 3-5 in the League, but, as somebody may have said before, anything can happen in a Harvard-Yale game. The Elis, obviously, are not loaded with talent, but they play good position hockey, and they scrap. In their best performance this season, they gave Michigan a battle before bowing...