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...FELIX LANDAU Los Angeles...
...Earl Warren, Justices Tom Clark, John Marshall Harlan and William J. Brennan Jr. Black and Warren are Baptists; Clark, Harlan and Douglas are Presbyterians (Douglas is a minister's son; Clark served for years as a church elder). Brennan is the court's only Roman Catholic. Justices Felix Frankfurter and Byron R. White took no part in the decision. White and Dissenter Stewart are Episcopalians, and Frankfurter is a Jew by origin, but answers "no comment" when asked about his religious affiliation...
...Canada and Mexico) that reached their stockpile objective in 1954. Yet the Eisenhower Administration ordered the Government to purchase an additional 760,000 tons at prices above the market-which cost some $200 million-and made the purchases without the customary competitive bidding. The purpose of the purchases, testified Felix E. Wormser, former Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Mineral Resources, was not to hoard critical and scarce materials-the goal of the stockpiling program-but to shore up production and prices in the troubled minerals industry. Wormser, who came to the Government from his job as vice president...
...major who is aiming for Harvard Law School after his graduation next June. An earlier Harvard Law man (class of '29): his father, Alger Hiss, 57, an honors graduate who won the coveted post of secretary to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes at the recommendation of Mentor Felix Frankfurter, served as a high State Department official before his conviction (and three-year eight-month imprison ment) for perjury in denying that he had passed Government papers to onetime Communist Courier Whittaker Chambers. He is now a salesman for stationery and printing interests...
...schools that Christianity has an influence in West Africa that far exceeds its numerical strength. Although about one-half of West Africans are pagans and only one in a dozen is a baptized Christian, nearly every West African leader, from Ghana's flamboyant Kwame Nkrumah to Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, studied at mission schools. Protestant and Catholic schools of West Africa today have more than 200,000 students-including most sons and daughters of the new nations' urban elite...