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...somehow sick tend to blame the court for much of the rise in crime, the loosening of morals, the racial conflict and the general air of permissiveness. Most of those complaints have welled up in the acrimonious debate in the Senate over Lyndon Johnson's nomination of Abe Fortas to become the nation's 15th Chief Justice. Last week the argument grew angrier, and opposition to Fortas stiffened. As the fight moved toward a climax within the next two weeks, it seemed likely to increase the divisiveness in the land and become an important campaign issue...
...around the country, and were advised not to criticize the police. At the same time, Nixon did not want to be in the position of endorsing repressive police measures. In the end, he took the same tack that he had taken on both Viet Nam and the appointment of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice. The whole matter, he pronounced, was simply too important for partisan politics. Judgment should await the results of an investigation by the President's commission on violence: "I think that political figures should not make partisan comments from the sidelines...
...nomination of Abe Fortas as Chief Justice of the United States has been bottled up in the Senate Judiciary Committee ever since President Johnson sent the nomination to the Senate on June 26. Last week, as Congress reconvened after the conventions, the committee was once again scheduled to consider his appointment. This time, its members did not even field a quorum to review the issue...
...construction was going on. Indeed, so many new pictures were added that Johnson and Kreeger wound up adding three new galleries on the level below the main floor. Picassos and Chagalls now hang in the recital room, where Kreeger plays his Stradivarius in string quartets with old friends, including Abe Fortas. A smaller chess room contains surrealists. Liveliest of all is the gallery that the Kreegers call their "trial and error room." Its walls display their latest contemporary acquisitions, including works by Thomas Downing, Charles Hinman, James Rosenquist, Milton Avery and Larry Poons...
...CARATS, a French import directed by Abe Burrows. Middle-aged woman loves young man; her teen-age daughter loves "older...