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...last week as vintage Rolls-Royces purred up to the door. Inside, trumpets pealed while a stately procession of officers in scarlet or blue uniforms and bewigged justices in red robes followed the gold sword of state. Mounting a dais, Brigadier Akwasi Afrifa, 33, and two other officers were sworn in as members of a new, three-man presidential commission. Then Afrifa administered the oath of office to Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia, the new Premier, impetuously raising Busia's arm in a fighter's victory gesture. Except for that forgivable breach of decorum, Ghana ushered in the second...
...board of supervisors, for example, Lindon S. Hollinger, the county's chief administrative officer, and Counsel Martin Weekes alleged that Noguchi had said: "I hope Kennedy will die so I'll get to do the autopsy on him and a chance to make a reputation." In sworn testimony before the trial board, that quote became: "It seems Senator Kennedy is going to die. I'll be doing the autopsy." The charge had been made that Noguchi was glassy-eyed and "disassociated" during the Kennedy autopsy. The trial board found that Noguchi had performed a "superior autopsy...
Burger's decision, reached before he was sworn in as Chief Justice, revoked the license of WLBT-TV of Jackson, Miss., an NBC affiliate. The reason: racial discrimination in programming. The station, owned by the Lamar Life In surance Co., had been accused of permitting racial slurs on the air, excluding news of Jackson's 40% Negro population and cutting off network news reports of civil rights activities...
...nation's earliest suffragettes, welcomed the news that she could remain an American. The Board of Immigration Appeals ruled that Dr. Anthony, who teaches theology at Marymount College in Boca Raton, Fla., should not be deported. It was true enough, she said, that in 1954 she had sworn allegiance to the British Crown rather than testify before the McCarthy hearings. But she had feared that the emotional strain would force a return to the alcoholism she had suffered in the 1940s, and she had acted in a moment of confusion and panic after Government agents had threatened to separate...
...Judiciary Committee hearing was routine, Floor discussion was for the most part amiable, taking only a scant three hours last week before the Senate voted 74 to 3 to approve the nomination of Warren Earl Burger as Chief Justice of the United States. He will be sworn in when the Supreme Court concludes its current term...