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∙ LEE LOEVINGER, 48, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division. A Phi Beta Kappa like Whizzer White, Loevinger was a Minnesota law partner of Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. He specialized in antitrust work until Freeman, as Minnesota's Governor, appointed him a state supreme court justice. Blunt and aggressive. Loevinger argues that the Kennedy Administration's policies promote competition and protect free enterprise rather than stifle business.
Moving into areas where previous antitrust chiefs have rarely trod, Loevinger has ordered five suits against bank mergers, is now seeking an across-the-board price-fixing injunction against General Electric.
∙ BURKE MARSHALL, 39, Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Civil Rights Division. Slight, seemingly shy but hard as nails, Yaleman Marshall left a lucrative Washington law practice to direct Bobby Kennedy's civil rights assault. With enlarged legal and research staffs, he keeps in touch with Negro groups and segregation leaders, attempts to solve issues primarily by persuasion rather than by coertion. When persuasion fails, he moves. To enforce Negro voting rights, the department has so far filed suits in 15 southern counties, has active investigations or negotiations under way in 61 other counties.
"If we do our job right," says Marshall, "there should be no need for a civil rights division in a very few years." For all the skills of his subordinates, there is no question that Bob Kennedy is the man in charge. Shirtsleeves rolled up to the elbow, tie askew and feet planted firmly atop his mahogany desk, Kennedy runs the Department of Justice from a gymnasium-sized office decorated with watercolors by his children. He has personally taken charge of one of the New Frontier's most ticklish tasks: recommending the appointments of 125 new federal judges (some to fill vacancies, 73 to fill the requirements of an authorization passed last year by Congress for an expanded judiciary). So far, the President has sent 89 names to Congress for confirmation. Of those nominations, 13 have been rated by the American Bar Association as exceptionally well qualified, 41 as well qualified, 22 as qualified, 6 as inadequate (the A.B.A. has not rated the rest).
Like a Bop. Within the Justice Department building, Bobby Kennedy has made it his business to wander the corridors, pop into offices, chat with the help. Last spring, deeply concerned about the causes and cures of juvenile delinquency, he went to New York and, without the usual coterie of newsmen, wandered on foot into the tenement districts of East Harlem. There, his coat draped over his shoulder, he sat on a street curb and discussed with members of a gang called the Viceroys their thinking, their problems, their interests. "He looked like a bop himself," said one of the Viceroys later. Said another: "He's sort of an in-between guy. You know. Not hip. But not square."
Asked in Tokyo last week if her husband ever had time for family relaxation, Ethel Kennedy replied: "Oh yes. And when he comes in, it's quite lively. All the children jump on his back."