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Normally gregarious, Carswell withdrew into a virtual state of siege. He rarely went to the court house, took no new cases, worked on old ones at home. He gave up his leisurely, chatty lunches at Angelo's, a Tallahassee restaurant. He and his wife Virginia, who is described by acquaintances as "a cheerleader type," began to turn down many invitations to parties and dinners and limited their social engagements to bridge games with close friends. "We were not used to being in the limelight," says Carswell's daughter, Mrs. Ramsay Langston, 24. "We wondered if it was ever...
...intellectual attainment on the court. But now, as law-school deans and bar associations continued to weigh in against Carswell, the ludicrous core of that argument was beginning to show. Further, two of Carswell's more eminent Fifth Circuit colleagues also hurt him. Retired Chief Judge Elbert Tuttle withdrew an earlier endorsement; Judge John Minor Wisdom refused to join in recommending Carswell to the Senate...
...BOND, 30, one of eight blacks elected to the Georgia house of representatives in 1965. None had served there since Reconstruction. He was the first black to be nominated for Vice President at a national-party convention. That happened at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1968; Bond withdrew because he was too young to qualify. He has spoken widely since then, and is one of the best-known black politicians in the U.S. A militant activist, but not a revolutionary, he represents those blacks seeking to influence the nation through the existing governmental system...
Bergson's amendment-also rewriting that same paragraph-was not voted on, as Rosenblatt withdrew the resolution as soon as the Hughes amendment passed...
...relations was prompted by Secretary of State William Rogers' recent African tour. During the trip, the leaders of at least six Black African nations objected to continued U.S. relations with a country in which 234,000 whites exert total control over roughly 5,000,000 blacks. Britain, which withdrew its diplomatic representation last year, had also urged the U.S. to pull out, and a United Nations Security Council resolution, passed in 1965, called for diplomatic isolation of Rhodesia...