A PROFESSIONAL FOR THE HIGH COURT.

The article focuses on Warren Earl Burger, the choice of U.S. President Richard M. Nixon to replace Chief Justice Earl Warren for the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. It notes that Burger is a professional jurist, a man of unquestioned probity and came from a conservative school but moderate on racial issues. It offers several comments from notable people on Burger's appointment including critic Philip Kurland, historian Arthur Link and Judge J. Edward Lumbard.