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Conservative Professor Ernest Lefever, 61, went to work at the State Department just two weeks after the President's Inauguration. His posting: Assistant Secretary-designate for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs. Not everyone was ecstatic about the choice; his detractors included human rights activists, religious groups, liberal politicians and newspaper editorialists. New and popular Presidents, however, tend to be permitted the nominees they want, and Lefever, in testifying before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, airily dismissed his opponents as "Communist-inspired." Yet after two rancorous days of hearings last week, Lefever appeared to have a good chance of becoming...
...second decision involved a Texas prisoner named Ernest Smith, who was convicted of taking part in a grocery store robbery during which his accomplice killed a clerk. A judge asked Dallas Psychiatrist James Grigson to talk to Smith in jail to see if he was mentally competent to stand trial. Grigson decided that he was. After a jury found Smith guilty, it reconvened to sentence him-a procedure required by Texas law whenever the state seeks the death penalty. Grigson, a controversial figure with a striking record of testifying in favor of the death penalty (see box), said that Smith...
...Josephine became La Bakaire and stayed on in Europe, a chanteuse who was, according to another expatriate named Ernest Hemingway, "the most sensational woman anybody ever saw. Or ever will." In middle age, she turned from entertainment to graver concerns, working for the French Resistance and, later, speaking out against discrimination in the U.S. The tourist center on her Dordogne estate ran up debts of $400,000. Still, she supported her twelve adopted children, a "rainbow tribe" of races, religions, nationalities. "If children can live together in harmony," Baker announced, "grownups...
Much of the action is concentrated in the low-lying forests and farm land that stretch out south of Cheboygan. Ernest Hemingway set some of the action for his Nick Adams stories in this area. Noted until now for little more than its austere beauty and fine lake fishing, the region these days features increasingly frequent sightings of Texas and Oklahoma oilmen in boots and cowboy hats, and New York and Dallas bankers in Brooks Brothers suits. "I don't think anyone is being too optimistic," says the state's Lieutenant Governor, James Brickley. "I find oil people...
Calling the endowment "enormously helpful to the humanities," the recipient of the largest NEH grant at Harvard, Ernest R. May, professor of History, said yesterday that private grants are often too small to support major projects...