Word: stevenses
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Stevens, who is 55, is the Federal Appeals Court judge for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago, a post to which President Nixon appointed him in 1970. Before that, he practiced law after serving as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Wiley Rutledge.
Harvard professors voiced mixed reactions yesterday to President Ford's nomination of Judge John Paul Stevens to the Supreme Court seat vacated by Justice William O. Douglas, who retired November 12 because of poor health.
"I'm not one who looks for a great legislator on the Supreme Court," Raoul Berger, Warren Fellow in American Legal History, said yesterday. Berger said that he preferred "a sound lawyer," and that he has respect for Stevens's legal experience.
"It would be a mistake to describe him as ideologically doctrinaire," Laurence H. Tribe '62, professor of Law, said yesterday. Tribe called Stevens's court opinions "elegant, insightful, and carefully reasoned."
At first avoiding politics, he studied engineering at Hoboken's Stevens Institute of Technology, graduated in 1960 and worked days as an engineer, nights as editor of a local weekly. Reeves found he liked newspapering so much that he became a reporter for the Newark Evening News, made a...