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...Holdouts. Though Ainsworth noted that "our conference has no jurisdiction over the Supreme Court," some Justices are already moving to abide voluntarily by the new rules. William J. Brennan Jr. canceled several lectures, prepared to liquidate his $15,000 share in a Virginia real estate venture, and withdrew from the faculty of the Appellate Judges' Seminar, an annual course at the New York University Law School. Incoming Chief Justice Warren Burger has indicated that he will give up his $2,000-a-year fee as a trustee of the Mayo Foundation...
...full time duty as Dean of the Faculty. He attended a Faculty meeting devoted mainly to normal academic matters. One extraordinary resolution--a definition of "permissible behavior for members of the academic community," proposed by Alex Inkeles and Samuel Huntington--was scheduled for discussion. But Huntington and Inkeles withdrew the motion, saying they would bring it up again at a special Faculty meeting in June...
...government withdrew its support a large fraction of the experimental research activities at this university would stop. Alternative support is simply unavailable. After the research activities had stopped, instruction would stagnate and degenerate. In the sciences, the university would be reduced to a college with a glorious past...
...Rhyne, former American Bar Association president, a Nixon classmate at Duke law school and a personal friend, and Attorney General John Mitchell, the 1968 campaign manager. A third, Herbert Brownell, Eisenhower's Attorney General?and Burger's boss for three years in the Justice Department in the early '50s?withdrew of his own accord because he thought his former job would raise opposition in the Senate. A fourth, Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee to the court, took himself out because he thought that elevation of an Associate Justice would create friction and jealousy on the bench. Thomas Dewey, twice...
...reports that when a judge issued arrest warrants against the students under the injunction, they were seized with "a general sense of panic." They feared that defying the court could result in police records that might plague them for the rest of their lives. Most of the students hastily withdrew, shielding their faces from photographers...