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...West Pointer Jim Warner, a flop in the mile indoors, is expected to avenge his loss at Ithaca to Eli Rick Wilmer. Harvard's Jim Smith scored a fine second place in the winter championships but will be hard pressed to repeat that performance tomorrow afternoon...
...William F. McKee, 58, retired Air Force general, will become Federal Aviation Agency administrator, replacing undynamic Najeeb Halaby, who has resigned and plans to write a book called Washington Cockpit. Virginia-born, West Pointer "Bozo" McKee is little known to the civilian aviation industry, but made a name for himself in the Air Force as a management expert; he is the only non-aviator ever to be made a four-star Air Force general. McKee was Air Force Vice Chief of Staff before he retired last August to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration...
Dedicated Lawyer Sir: Your article on Pointer v. Texas [April 16] was as clear and as accurate a summary of the Supreme Court's opinion as could have been written. I remember when Orville A. Harlan was appointed to represent Pointer in his appeal. Harlan was handling a number of appeals for various indigents-a burden borne by a very small percentage of the bar in this community. After Mr. Harlan entered the Pointer case, he not only expended far more than the $100 paid him by the state, but the time devoted to briefing and arguing the case...
...colonies in the Boston Massacre of 1770, many thousands of his fellow Negroes have distinguished themselves in battle. Yet it was not until 1940 that a U.S. Negro attained the rank of general. Fourteen years after General Benjamin Oliver Davis won that distinction, his son, a rangy West Pointer and bemedaled World War II fighter squadron leader, came back from the Korean War to become the first of his race to win the two stars of a major general. Now, after distinguished service as an Air Force Deputy chief of staff in the Pentagon, Benjamin Oliver Davis...
...Pointer v. Texas (1965) upheld the right of defendants to have lawyers present in order to cross-examine prosecution witnesses, but Appellant Bob Pointer, a hardened criminal, gained little himself from the reversal of his life sentence for robbery by assault. Texas will now prosecute him for five similar robberies, making him eligible for five more life sentences...