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South Carolina. The only issue in the campaign, says Senator Olin Johnston, is "one fella has the job and the other fella wants it." The other fella is William D. Workman Jr.. newspaper columnist who formally joined the Republican Party only last fall. He is waging the most formidable Republican campaign for the Senate in South Carolinians' memories. But it is not quite formidable enough...
...Prejudice and pettiness have had their day," cried Connecticut's Democratic Senator Thomas Dodd. "Now responsibility and fairness will render the decision.'' After four months of sporadic hearings before a judiciary subcommittee headed by South Carolina's Olin Johnston, the Senate confirmed the appointment of a controversial Negro to the U.S. Court of Appeals. He is Thurgood Marshall, 54, longtime chief counsel to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, who has been sitting as a Second Circuit (New York, Connecticut, Vermont) judge since his nomination by President Kennedy a year ago. The Senate...
...unexpected results, the July 9 high-altitude shot yielded so much information of military value that preparations for other high-altitude shots to evaluate the new data are still continuing. The restricted area around Johnston Island will be re-established next week for new tests. Lower in altitude and lower in energy than the big July shot the next tests may not add many more electrons to the earth's multiple belts. But NASA is now playing it safe; it is hastily building a tough new satellite to keep tab on all radiation, both natural and manmade...
Under normal Senate procedure, Marshall's appointment went to the Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James O. Eastland. Eastland assigned a three-man subcommittee under South Carolina's Olin Johnston to study the nomination. When the subcommittee finally got down to business in July, Johnston looked on benignly as Subcommittee Counsel Lincoln Lipscomb, a Mississippian, closely questioned Marshall about the propriety of a number of N.A.A.C.P. cases-including many in which Marshall had played no direct part. As the same sort of questioning stretched into August, New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating, a member...
Last week, asked at his press conference about the holdup on Marshall, President Kennedy said that he had received "assurances" that the Senate would not adjourn without taking action on Marshall's nomination. Whereupon South Carolina's Johnston at last brought the hearings to an end, moving Michigan's Democrat Philip A. Hart to exclaim: "Amen and thank heaven!" Still, Johnston indicated that it might take a while longer before the subcommittee actually got around to taking a formal vote on Marshall. Said Johnston: "I'm not predicting anything yet in regard to the matter...