Word: adams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Crown Prince Johann-Adam, son of reigning Prince Franz Joseph II of Liechtenstein, lunched with Master Conway and 12 undergraduates in Leverett House yesterday during a tour of Harvard and M.I.T. The 18-year-old Hapsburg descendant will visit with President Kennedy in Washington tomorrow...
...York's Democratic Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr. is a much criticized man, but he has a handy retort to any charge leveled against him: the critic, says Powell, is obviously prejudiced against Negroes...
Last week the all-white jury deliberated 3½hours, turned in a judgment requiring Powell to pay Mrs. James $211,500. "This is the happiest day of my life," cried Mrs. James. "The king is dead. Adam Clayton Powell is dead. Now he will just have to keep his big mouth shut." Powell, though hardly dead, was indeed uncommonly silent. And no wonder: he could hardly claim that in deciding against him the jury had shown prejudice against Negroes...
...first group of volunteers assembled in Harlem in late January, a bit confused by the extent of the problem they faced, almost ignored by the community; as one ACT official put it, "at first we were just written off as the latest of Adam's schemes. Later on, though, things changed...
...case the future of the domestic Peace Corps in Harlem does not look bright. In the year of the $99 million budget, Congress is increasingly unwilling to provide funds for welfare projects, and the unwillingness is increased when the funds are ticketed for Adam Clayton Powell's district. The President's Committee on Youth will probably be willing to back the Corps as long as the Committee itself has funds, but shortly the Committee will have to go to Congress for more money. "When that happens I think Congress will take a long, hard look at the possibility of ending...