Reflection & Retirement

Out of the chairmanship of the President's new Civil Rights Commission last week stepped retired Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed, 72, only four weeks after taking the job. "Upon reflection," he wrote the President in longhand, "I have concluded that I must withdraw." His reason: his active service in civil rights' investigations and decisions, after sitting in judgment on civil rights' cases before the Supreme Court, might lower "respect for the impartiality of the federal judiciary." Likely prospect to succeed him: Commission Vice Chairman John A. Hannah, 55, president of Michigan State University and onetime (1953-54) Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Personnel.

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