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Shameless Taft. Burger had only agreed to the question-and-answer gathering to help publicize last week's monumentally titled National Conference on the Causes of Popular Dissatisfaction with the Administration of Justice-a meeting of 275 legal leaders to explore deficiencies in the system of justice. The irony in the decision to give his first press conference is that Burger, on the one hand, tends to carry his sense of dignity almost to the point of mediaphobia, while on the other hand he has energetically lectured and lobbied for legal reforms that he believes are needed...
...upcoming feature on the children of U.S. Presidents, editors at the Ladies' Home Journal hired a couple of experts on the subject: Susan Ford, 18, and Lynda Bird Johnson Robb, 32. Last week the pair visited another First Family offspring, Helen Taft Manning, 84, daughter of Republican President William Howard Taft. "Mrs. Robb and I gossiped about people at the White House. I have always admired the Johnsons," said Mrs. Manning. As for Susan, "She was the least bothersome photographer I have ever had, very professional and businesslike." Did the bipartisan progeny engage in any political shoptalk? Answered Manning...
...Betty Ford's favorite picture is Boys Crabbing, a muted oil by 19th century Genre Painter William Ranney ("I understand boys," the mother of three of them says). Mrs. William Howard Taft, whose portrait is on the wall of the Grand Staircase, is her idea "of what a First Lady should look like...
Udall comes from a highly political Arizona family, and he has won reelection seven times, with increasing majorities in a conservative state. No dogmatist in his views, he voted against repeal of the state right-to-work section of the Taft-Hartley Act in 1965 because his state fiercely favored the section-though today he says that as President, he would work for repeal. Just two weeks ago, he told a liberal Harvard Law School audience that he was against gun control. "I know I'm going to lose some of you on that one, but that...
...advanced stage of organization than its "University-wide" counterpart, the Harvard Employees' Organizing Committee (HEOC), and to deprive already-organized workers of their right to collective bargaining seems patently unfair. And yet "extent of organization" ceased to be a criterion for unionization in 1947, with the passage of the Taft-Hartley Amendment. Previously, the Massachusetts state labor board would award union status to different stores in a department store chain and to different floors in factories, simply on the basis of the extent to which they were already organized. Now, however, the NLRB is bound by only two ambiguous...