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Died. Percy L. Julian, 76, prolific black research chemist; of cancer; in Waukegan, Ill. Grandson of a slave, Alabama-born Julian won honors at Harvard and the University of Vienna on his way to garnering over 130 chemical patents. His pioneering work with soybeans led to discoveries ranging from a drug for treating glaucoma to aerofoam, the Navy's fire-extinguishing "bean soup" of World War II. But he was best known for his low-cost method of synthesizing cortisone, which made him both a millionaire and a major financial angel to the civil rights movement...
Short-order success is nothing new for the Alabama-born lawyer. Dees has been an acquisitive competitor ever since he won childhood Easter-egg hunts by getting other kids to give him their eggs in return for a bite of the chocolate prize. During his undergraduate and law-school years at the University of Alabama, he and a partner parlayed a birthday-cake agency and other enterprises into a six-figure business. The two then put off practicing law to set up a marketing group that sold specialized cookbooks, among other things. It soon grew into one of the South...
Morale. The election of Cooper, an Alabama-born graduate of Notre Dame and New York University's School of Law, seemed to signal a new era of interracial cooperation in a community in which only one black had held an appointive position in the municipal government. One of Cooper's first postelection acts, in fact, was to visit the disabled Wallace and invite him to speak again in Prichard at any time. Preaching conciliation rather than proclaiming black power, Cooper had unseated the lackadaisical twelve-year incumbent mayor, Vernon Capps, 62, by applying some of the organizational expertise...
...application of the Bill of Rights to cover state as well as federal actions. As the court was attacked for asserting the rights of criminal suspects or banning prayer in schools, Black would reply: "The court didn't do it. The Constitution did it." Replacing Black, the Alabama-born appointee of F.D.R., will surely prove a gain for Nixon's point of view...
...belief of many critics that she is the world's greatest interpreter of the role. New Zealander Donald Mclntyre, who was impressive last year as Barak in Richard Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten at Covent Garden, used his deep baritone voice as an apocalyptic Dutchman. Alabama-born Tenor Jean Cox, as Erik, successfully followed Everding's instructions to behave as if he were "the only normal human being in the action...