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...Florida to Mississippi have in common? Answer: all are trying to remove the various criminal charges against them from state to federal courts. They are caught up in a headlong trend that intrigues lawyers, alarms judges, and is certain soon to confront the Supreme Court with some of the thorniest state-federal conflicts in U.S. legal history...
Both measures, thorniest to come before the hapless 88th Congress, had seemed hopelessly lost in the thickets of recalcitrant committees. But no more-the old lollygagging 88th was happily on the move at last...
Thus last week did New Mexico's Clint Anderson report on the progress of his battle against the confirmation as U.S. Secretary of Commerce of one of the nation's ablest and thorniest public figures: Lewis Lichtenstein Strauss, 63, longtime member and chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and a man whose governmental career Anderson has sworn to end. Despite Anderson's optimism, the outcome of that battle was still in cliff-hanging doubt, with the decision likely to swing on two or three Senate votes-and with the U.S. already the loser...
Once upon a time the U.S. Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee sat down to begin hearings on the confirmation of Lewis L. Strauss, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission and one of the ablest and thorniest figures in U.S. public life, as Secretary of Commerce. At that time an informal poll of the committee members showed that Strauss would win committee approval by a vote of 14-3. Last week, two months and 1,739 rancorous pages of testimony later, Strauss finally did win the committee's approval-by a cliffhanging vote of 9-8 (the squeaking...
...Come. Indication that still further increase in the college is in the offing-probably next spring-is to be found in the Pope's failure so far to name new cardinals in Asia or Africa, where the growth of nationalism is presenting the church with some of its thorniest problems and greatest opportunities. It is also considered likely that, in addition to Boston's Richard J. Gushing and Philadelphia's John F. O'Hara, Pope John will name more cardinals in the U.S.-almost certainly in Chicago, the largest U.S. archdiocese of all, whose Archbishop Albert...