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Archibald Cox, 48, Solicitor General. Ever present at Senator John Kennedy's side during the 1958-59 congressional battles over a labor reform bill was a trim, crew-cut law professor whom North Carolina's grumpy Graham Barden dubbed "that nit picker from Harvard." Shy, witty
...American than Catholic. Without representing an ' official position-and without running counter to it-he is now telling his fellow Catholics that they must become more intellectually aware of their ' coexistence'' in a pluralist, heavily Protestant society. But not even remotely is he trying to trim Catholicism to any other faith, or to the absence of faith. In his view, Catholics can make a major contribution-perhaps the decisive contribution-to an American society in spiritual crisis. His terms may startle some non-Catholics. "The question is not," says Murray, "whether Catholicism is safe for democracy...
Before the Bulls. Ruddy and trim (6 ft., 170 Ibs.), Bensinger likes sports and travel almost as much as his job. He has shot pigeons with Ernest Hemingway in Cuba, sipped wine with Pablo Picasso in Paris, played golf with Sam Snead. An aficionado, he has run before the bulls in Pamplona's festival of San Fermin and ried out his cape work against calves on [uan Belmonte's ranch in Spain. He has ished all over the world, once fired into a flight of blue-winged teal and killed eleven with a single shot. He even finds...
Oregon. Succeeding her late husband, Dick Neuberger, Democrat Maurine B. Neuberger, 52, seems sure to follow his ultra-liberal line in the Senate. A phenomenal vote getter in her own right, trim, athletic Maurine spent two terms in the state legislature, is remembered with particular affection by Oregon housewives for overturning a state ban on colored margarine. Outspoken, she once advocated a woman President because "women are nicer than men, mostly...
Protest & Veto. To succeed O'Donoghue, Judge Letts appointed former FBI Agent Terence F. McShane. 33. Naturally, Hoffa protested. Reason: trim, handsome Terry McShane had investigated Hoffa for the FBI in 1957, twice testified against him in the wiretap case. Fortnight ago. splitting 2 to 1 in favor of Hoffa, the U.S. Appeals Court in Washington bounced McShane, ruled that either the Teamsters or the insurgents could block any appointee for the chairmanship on "reasonable grounds...