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...Justice Department has not spared its strongest advocates or language in pressing the Government's interest. U.S. Solicitor General Erwin Griswold unsuccessfully asked the court to award judgment as a matter of law. At stake, the Government's brief stated, "is not a case of merely monetary importance. Until resolved, the disagreement impedes the further exploration and development of the submerged lands of the outer continental shelf for which Congress has declared an urgent need...
...Frank C. Erwin Jr. is the biggest booster the University of Texas has. His Cadillac is orange and white-the school colors-and he dotes on the national-champion Longhorn football team. He is a tireless money raiser and wants nothing less than to make the U.T. system the best in the country. He has no patience with anyone or anything he considers damaging to his beloved alma mater-and since Erwin is chairman of the university's board of regents, his antagonists are automatically on red alert...
...Erwin cannot, for instance, abide student dissent, even the relatively bland variety found in the American Southwest. He is convinced that the survival of public universities is at stake, a feeling that many other citizens share. In the past four months, he has engineered the abrupt departures of six administrators, including Chancellor Harry Ransom and President (Austin campus) Norman Hackerman-both of whom, it is thought, were too soft on student militancy to suit Erwin. The latest casualty: Dr. John R. Silber, 43, one of the country's leading philosophers, who was fired as dean of the College...
...Regent Erwin, who was appointed to the board by Governor John Connally in 1963, is a rich, 50-year-old Austin lawyer, a longtime crony of Lyndon Johnson's, and a former Democratic National Committeeman. He is now emperor of the University of Texas. His idea of a great university is one where teachers teach, students study and regents govern at his direction. His strict construction of those views has kept him at constant odds with students and faculty...
...years ago. Erwin threw a birthday party for Governor Connally in the U.T. gym. When anti-war students outside protested the presence of Lyndon Johnson, Erwin called them "a bunch of dirty nothin's." Last fall Erwin personally directed bulldozers in a confrontation with students over the uprooting of some stately oak and cypress trees to make way for expansion of the football stadium. He then pushed through a rule forbidding administrators to negotiate with disruptive students. Last January a straw poll of the 32,000 students at U.T.'s main campus in Austin showed 80% favoring Erwin...