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Case said yesterday that he is about to appoint a blue-ribbon committee to review all university policies regarding student publications...
...time for emergency measures. The President should propose new legislation to establish a Voting Commission, similiar to the present Civil Rights Commission, which would be authorized to appoint Federal voting registrars for any area in which the Commission found voting discrimination. This innovation would end the tortuous delays of the present judicial route...
...Favreau told Pearson, but as Pearson later admitted, he had "completely forgotten" about the warnings of trouble in his official family until two days before the Opposition Conservatives broke the story last November. When the storm hit Parliament, Pearson had no choice but to collect resignations and to appoint a commission of public inquiry. For the past six weeks, Canadians have been treated to the spectacle of the accused aides protesting their innocence and minor-league hoodlum types testifying about their "connections" in the Liberal government...
...Pope has indicated that he will appoint even more cardinals, probably at the close of the Vatican Council's final session next fall. His appointments cut short the widespread Roman speculation that he might let the College of Cardinals fall into disuse in favor of a new senate of bishops, an idea discussed at the council. Typically, Paul accepted the innovation halfway: there will probably be no new senate, but the college would be expanded to give a voice to Catholics everywhere...
...domestic political battles. Talking to a newsman before the 1946 congressional elections, Fulbright launched out on one of his lectures about the evils of party divisions between the White House and Congress. To prevent a deadlocked Government, he suggested that if Republicans seized Congress, Harry Truman really ought to appoint Republican Arthur Vandenberg Secretary of State, then resign himself and let Vandenberg succeed to the presidency (the vice-presidency was vacant, and in those days the Secretary of State was still next in line). The G.O.P. did win, and after the election the reporter asked Fulbright if he still felt...