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...California Chief Justice Donald Wright, a Ronald Reagan appointee whom Bird is replacing, protests that in California "this is the first time, at least since the turn of the century, that someone without judicial experience is appointed directly as chief justice." Attorney General Evelle J. Younger, one of a three-man panel that must approve the nomination, questions Bird's lack of judicial experience and does not like what he describes as her "soft position" on the death penalty. Younger, a Republican, wants to run against Brown in next year's gubernatorial election; if he blocks the Bird...
...minutes are frequently in error, Ralph asserts, because they are compiled by a member of McLaughlin's staff and subject to approval by a majority of the three-man board. Ralph has not signed the minutes for any meeting since July 1, 1975. "They never show me the minutes," he complains, adding that the other commissioners only permit him to see the weekly journal's last page, which is reserved for signatures. Predictably, McLaughlin denies this allegation...
Eliot's successor, President Lowell, imposed quotas for Jewish students at Harvard in the early 1920s. In 1927, he served on a special three-man panel which made the final determination that Sacco and Vanzetti be executed. In 1936, at Harvard's Tercentenary celebration, a group of Harvard alumni circulated a pamphlet showing how the arguments Lowell used in justifying Sacco and Vanzetti's executions were similar to those being used to promote fascist movements in Europe...
Harvard's three-man units of foil and saber each romped over its adversaries 9-0. The epee squad, plagued by four 5-4 defeats, lost its event to the Woodsmen four bouts to nine...
...change was a two-stage reviewing policy for minority applicants, he said. A three-man subcommittee reviewed the applications of minority students initially rejected in the admissions process and accepted some of them...