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Traditionally, the University of California awards an honorary doctorate to the principal speaker at its April 2 Charter Day ceremonies. In the past, recipients have been such men as Jan Masaryk, John F. Kennedy and Konrad Adenauer. But this year the guest of honor apparently didn’t quite measure up. Breaking with 102 years of tradition, the Regents voted not to award a degree to the featured speaker, John Lindsay.

Judge Carswell shouldn’t sit on the Supreme Court, quoth the Democratic Policy Council (H. Humphrey, chairman), because Justices “must be devoid of any record of racial bias, intolerance or discrimination” and as we all know Mrs. Carswell once sold a lot the deed for which contained a racial covenant, aha! Come to find out, from 1947 to 1964 Humphrey lived in a house that, according to the deed, mustn’t “be sold, leased to or occupied by any person of Negro blood except as to occupancy by domestic servants while employed on the premises by the owner.” We can all breathe easy—if Judge Carswell isn’t confirmed, Nixon won’t dare nominate Humphrey.

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Traditionally, the University of California awards an honorary doctorate to the principal speaker at its April 2 Charter Day ceremonies. In the past, recipients have been such men as Jan Masaryk, John F. Kennedy and Konrad Adenauer. But this year the guest of honor apparently didn’t quite measure up. Breaking with 102 years of tradition, the Regents voted not to award a degree to the featured speaker, John Lindsay.

Judge Carswell shouldn’t sit on the Supreme Court, quoth the Democratic Policy Council (H. Humphrey, chairman), because Justices “must be devoid of any record of racial bias, intolerance or discrimination” and as we all know Mrs. Carswell once sold a lot the deed for which contained a racial covenant, aha! Come to find out, from 1947 to 1964 Humphrey lived in a house that, according to the deed, mustn’t “be sold, leased to or occupied by any person of Negro blood except as to occupancy by domestic servants while employed on the premises by the owner.” We can all breathe easy—if Judge Carswell isn’t confirmed, Nixon won’t dare nominate Humphrey.