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This week Governor Pat Brown planned to appoint Salinger to fill the remaining five months of Engle's term. This would provide Pierre with a significant head start over G.O.P. Opponent George Murphy, the retired movie-man, and Pierre can use the help. Though he is still the heavy favorite, Salinger has identified himself as a champion of the controversial antidiscrimination Rumford Fair Housing Act. A current battle to repeal it has stirred such soaring passion in Califor nia that he could conceivably become the victim of a white protest vote. At any rate, Pierre would now be able...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Plus for Pierre | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...soon as the goal is achieved. White Methodist ministers in Dallas helped elect the Rev. Zan W. Holmes Jr., a Negro, to the presidency of the interdenominational Dallas Pastors' Association. Bishop John Wesley Lord of Washington will probably include three or four Negroes among twelve superintendents he will appoint next June...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Methodists: Negro Bishops for White Areas | 7/24/1964 | See Source »

Though A.T. & T.'s $58 million, holding is only two-thirds of what it bid for, the block is big enough to entitle Mother Bell to share a signal honor with the President of the U.S.: each will appoint three members to Comsat's 15-man board. International Telephone & Telegraph, which bought a 10.5% holding, will name one member, while General Telephone (3.5%) and RCA (2.5%), will join, with 159 other smaller communications companies-all of which got all the shares that they asked for-to elect two members...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communications: Mother Bell in Orbit | 6/5/1964 | See Source »

President Pusey awarded the prize on Wednesday at a noon luncheon. The award is administered by senior faculty members from a variety of disciplines who compose the Syndics of the Harvard University Press. They appoint an ad hoc selection committee of other scholars outside Harvard to choose the winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bate Wins Faculty Prize for Book On Keats; Banfield, Wilson Honored | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

When President Roosevelt was about to appoint Cordell Hull Secretary of State, five Democratic Senators complained that Hull was too idealistic for the job. The objection was unusual, and F.D.R. laughed it off; but this first biography of Hull shows that the Senators had a point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Saint in Politics | 5/29/1964 | See Source »

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