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With his China initiative, the President is also taking some satirical fire from the right. William Loeb, publisher of the Manchester (N.H.) Union Leader and conservative thinker somewhat abaft of Coriolanus, regards the Peking trip with such horror that he instituted a reader contest to rename the President's plane, now called The Spirit of '76. That title, Loeb asserted, is totally inappropriate...
MILDRED L. LILLIE, 56. Neither feminists, Democrats nor the Los Angeles legal establishment is pleased with the prospect that Mrs. Lillie, a California state appeals court judge since 1958, may become the first woman Supreme Court Justice. A warm personality, she is not known as a judicial thinker, and even her admirers admit that she seems to go out of her way to interpret the law against criminal defendants. Says U.C.L.A. Law Professor Melville Nimmer: "She has no analytical ability, no depth in framing and perceiving legal issues. Her reputation among law professors and attorneys ranges from mundane and average...
...downright hostile toward him and his followers. Yet they feel that his long, patient campaign against freedom must be studied and understood. Their criticism is directed not at Skinner the scientific technician (the soundness of his laboratory work is seldom questioned) but at Skinner the philosopher and political thinker; his proposal for a controlled society, they say, is both unworkable and evil...
Wicker praised Jackson as "a talented writer, a sensitive man, a potential leader and political thinker of great persuasiveness." He lamented the "wanton destruction of humanity" by a system that had jailed Jackson for one year to life for a $70 robbery at age 19 and kept him in prison for nearly twelve years until his death. "For once," wrote Wicker, "this predominantly white society ought not passively to accept the usual assumption that authority is blameless and truthful, and those who defy it are fools or depraved, especially if black...
...Nixon Administration learned any such lessons? How much different is the Nixon Administration's decision-making process? There have been qualitative changes. Nixon is a more orderly, more disciplined and less instinctive thinker than Johnson. He would rather read than talk; he probably demands and gets better briefs. Henry Kissinger is a more brilliant thinker than Walt Rostow or McGeorge Bundy. Under Nixon, there have been efforts to elicit a more systematic range of views from federal agencies, but whether they get any closer to the top man is doubtful. There is no convincing indication that the psychology and life...