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...armchair facing the high, white hospital bed. Harold Macmillan, recuperating from his prostate operation and cranked up to a sitting position, wore blue and white pajamas. In such unlikely surroundings Elizabeth received Macmillan's even more unlikely nomination for Prime Minister: Alexander Frederick Douglas-Home, Earl of Home, Baron Home, Baron Dunglass and Baron Douglas...
Just before the jury acted, Presidential Peacemakers Kenneth Roy all, former Army Secretary, and Earl Blaik, former West Point football coach, returned from Birmingham to Washington to talk with Kennedy. Both remained tight-lipped about their findings and recommendations, pending a final report to the President this week, but they offered vague reassurances that Birmingham tensions are easing. In Birmingham itself, that hardly seemed the case. The city council last week rejected a demand by Martin Luther King that Birmingham hire 25 Negro cops within two weeks. King had promised in advance that such a rejection would bring "bigger...
When they gather to consider which cases to review-perhaps 30 or 35 out of a record submission of 613 this summer-the justices shake hands all around to symbolize their unity of purpose. They sit at the conference-room table with Chief Justice Earl Warren at the head and Hugo Black, most senior in length of service, at the other end. No one else is permitted in the room while the court is deliberating. If someone knocks at the door, it is opened by the junior justice, now Arthur Goldberg. The justices come to the conference prepared with...
...receives hundreds of petitions from prisoners asking to have their cases reviewed. Many are handwritten on prison stationery, some are barely legible, most have no legal merit. But every now and then, one leads to an important decision. This year a handwritten letter from a Florida prisoner named Clarence Earl Gideon brought about a ruling that changed judicial procedures in several states and caused countless new trials in Florida...
Born. To John Charles Daly, 49, M.C. of CBS's What's My Line?, and Virginia Warren Daly, 35, daughter of Chief Justice Earl Warren: their second child, second son; in Manhattan...