Word: barton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, students refer casually to classmates in the commission's pay who take notes on "subversive" conversations and to the former graduate student who gets $35 a week for removing allegedly pro-Communist literature from the library. But not until the case of Ole Miss Senior Billy Barton was the commission caught so openly trafficking in "investigations" that Mississippians grew actively alarmed...
...Right Serious." Barton, 20, a journalism student and managing editor of the university paper, the Mississippian, worked last summer as a reporter trainee for the Atlanta Journal. From the Georgia States' Rights Council the Mississippi commission heard ugly rumors of Barton's Atlanta activities. Augmented later by commission informers at Ole Miss, the rumors were combined into a confidential report that bumbling Commission Director Albert Jones mistakenly released. The report accused Barton of belonging to the N.A.A.C.P. (which he does not) and of leading sit-in demonstrations in Atlanta (he helped cover one for the Journal). Last week...
...Barton case revelations were clearly too much for many a confirmed segregationist to swallow. State Representative Philip Bryant damned the commission as a "private Gestapo." The influential Jackson State Times asked editorially: "Has the State Sovereignty Commission developed into a secret police organization? What right has the commission to maintain files on any Mississippian?" Suddenly aware that what could happen to Barton could happen to them, more and more Mississippians seemed to be agreeing with I. H. Howell, editor of the Batesville Panolian. "When they organized the Sovereignty Commission,", he said, "I had no kick. But when they start having...
This week, with learned discussions and addresses by distinguished guests, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology celebrates its 100th anniversary. Established by Geologist William Barton Rogers, who promised that his school would be "founded on a thorough knowledge of scientific laws and principles," M.I.T. has more than met its mandate. Its job is to train scientists and technologists who can keep pace with the bewildering change that M.I.T.'s Stratton considers the dominant fact of modern life. Its methods are copied around the world; the Israel Institute of Technology, for example, is largely modeled after M.I.T. As perhaps no other...
...four, all American: J. Walter Thompson; Interpublic, Inc. (the parent corporation of McCann-Erickson); Young & Rubicam; Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn...