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...gentle, proper man who favored bow ties and bowlers and was often taken for a solicitor, McGill said of himself: "I am really rather Victorian in my outlook." And so he was. To Author Stephen Potter (Gamesmanship], McGill's cards brought back "memories of bathing tents and sand in gym shoes and tea at a beach café." To the late George Orwell, they meant something vastly different: a splashy, tintype, but nonetheless authentic expression of ''the Sancho Panza view of life." Like Don Quixote's earthy squire, McGill "punctures your fine attitudes and urges...
...Everyone knows that Robert F. Kennedy was the attorney for the McClellan Committee and that his brother, John F. Kennedy--with the aid of Archibald Cox, now solicitor general, drew up the original labor bill that was the father of the Landrum-Griffin Bill...
...ball game." In one striking respect, Hughes does resemble his rivals for John Kennedy's old Senate seat, Democrats Teddy Kennedy and Eddie McCormack, and Republican George Cabot Lodge, son of Richard Nixon's 1960 running mate. Hughes, too, is a scion; his father was once U.S. Solicitor General, and his grandfather was Charles Evans Hughes, onetime Secretary of State and Chief Justice...
...court's cafeteria, where he chats and jokes with the waitresses. When among the other justices, he constantly but cordially tries to win them over to his views. And when he propounds or defends those views, he becomes a tiger. Last week, as Chief Justice Warren and Solicitor General Archibald Cox marked Black's 25th year with praise for his "unflagging devotion to the Constitution of the U.S.," Black sank back in his chair, expressionless and embarrassed. But later in the morning, when it came time to read his opinion on school prayers, he came alive with force...
Just when Kennedy was trying to calm the business community,* Solicitor General Archibald Cox betook himself back to Harvard for a speech calculated to make any businessman blanch with dismay. His message: a way must be found to bring Government into wage-and-price-making decisions on a regular basis and at ''a fairly early stage" in the process. It may be enough for now that the Government "make known, widely and forcefully, the general policies that it thinks would advance the public interest." said Cox, but "there are a number of reasons for thinking that...