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...stepped determinedly into the job of acting president. A member of the Cal faculty since 1925, Wellman holds a Berkeley Ph.D. in agricultural economics, is considered by the faculty a strong defender of university autonomy. Insisting that he will not be "a mere housekeeper," he vowed to "maintain and strengthen the non- political character of the university" while the regents undertake a nationwide search for a successor to Kerr-a task that could well take months...
...less acute than the need for new ways to use it," I suggest the following: that the Federal Government establish a national council for ideas, made up of representatives from various Government departments, business and labor, plus farm, religious and educational leaders, to receive suggestions to fight poverty and strengthen human rights. As matters now stand, individuals with ideas must trudge from department to department, only to be told finally that there are no provisions in the budget for new ideas. If a commission were to act on proposals and give Ks approval, this might win acceptance for suggestions that...
...generations and it now also requires additional endowment for a number of purposes: to provide more fellowship support for students, to bring its inadequate level of faculty salaries closer to the general University standard, to establish professorships in new areas of concern, and properly to care for and strengthen its invaluable library collections. More than $4 million of the $6 million needed for the building has now been raised. (This includes a construction grant of a little more than $2 million granted on a matching basis by the Office of Education of the Federal Government). And approximately $2.5 million...
These pundits feel that in creating the advisory Council, Kennedy will strengthen his own hold over the party...
...strengthen the Fourth Amendment, Douglas argued, the court should have required the Lewis-case narcotics agent to get a search warrant, for which he had probable cause. In Hoffa, even though Douglas voted to dismiss on technical grounds, he denounced the Government for " 'planting' a friend in a person's entourage so that he can secure incriminating evidence." In Osborn, Douglas argued that even prior judicial approval of Vick's bugging violated the Fourth Amendment ban against a search designed to uncover anything more than the loot or the tools of a crime. Moreover, he insisted...