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Gabriella Murray Paderborn, West Germany...
Robert K. Murray of Pennsylvania State University has surveyed 1,000 Ph.D. historians as part of a study on how such authorities assess American Presidents. The 1,000 rated Kennedy 13th, in the middle of the "above average" category. Those considered great: Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson. Near great: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Andrew Jackson, Harry Truman. Above average: John Adams, Lyndon Johnson, James K. Polk, John Kennedy, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Grover Cleveland...
...expected pleasant news. The Senate Judiciary Committee seemed likely to approve a bill that would extend the commission's life and retain all its present members, including themselves. But hours before the committee was to meet, the White House gave Mary Frances Berry, Blandina Cardenas Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman a totally different message. As expressed in a letter hand-carried to Berry's office and signed by Personnel Assistant John S. Herrington, it was: "The President has requested that I inform you that your appointment as a member of the Commission on Civil Rights terminates effective today...
...many people, chess is just a game. But to Murray Turnbull, a nationally-ranked master who plays the game in front of a coffee shop in the Square, it's a living...
Civil rights groups were outraged five months ago when the president tried to replace three of the six commission members. He fired those three-Mary Berry. Blandina Ramirez and Rabbi Murray Saltzman...