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...finally run out. Scarcely 48 hours after the court announced its decision, Federal Judge Frank Wilson ordered Hoffa to appear this week in Chattanooga, Tenn., site of the jury-tampering trial, to begin serving an eight-year prison term. Though Hoffa's resourceful lawyers were expected to seek still another delay, even they were losing heart. Asked if he could keep Jimmy out of jail much longer, one of them replied: "I doubt...
Clark's retirement (at full pay of $39,500) gives Lyndon Johnson the opportunity of making his second appointment (his first: Abe Fortas, generally pegged as a liberal) and the problem of deciding whether to seek someone with a philosophy similar to Clark's or to reinforce the liberals' slender majority. There was the usual speculation about Government figures (Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz and Congressman Wilbur Mills), academicians (Harvard Law School's Paul Freund), and Texas friends (Houston Attorney Leon Jaworski and Federal Judge Homer Thornberry). Talk was also revived that Johnson would like...
...Luce?who had supported Republican Thomas E. Dewey for President in 1944 and 1948?was for Dwight Eisenhower both before and after the Republican Convention. Both TIME and LIFE supported Ike's candidacy. Luce went to Paris to look Ike over before the general came back to seek the nomination, and was impressed. "As for myself," Luce wrote later, "I had to make a decision which was personally painful. I respected Taft ?as who did not? But I decided I must go for Eisenhower. I thought it was of paramount importance that the American people should have the experience...
...seven months had enjoyed their own license to slander everyone in sight. Though it once cheered them on, the authoritative Maoist journal Red Flag now accused the young revolutionaries of having "begun to rest content with their past achievements" and to "chase after motorcycles, telephones and bicycles and seek a higher standard of living." They had erred also, said Red Flag, in attacking party cadres and thinking that the Cultural Revolution consisted only of "dismissing people from office," with the result that there was "no leader in a herd of dragons...
Barbara T. Flynn '68, organizer of the protest, and Laurence E. Fogarty '69, SDS co-chairman, also intend to seek interviews with the Dow representatives. Other SDS members may do the same thing, Miss Flynn said...