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Honorary Harvard degrees go to Adam Clayton Powell ("he spoke his mind"), Gen. Wessiny Wessin ("he danced to distant drums"), and Lt. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey ("he lived by the precepts of the prince of peace"). Richard Nixon, speaking in Fulton, Mo., accuses President Johnson of "shooting from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tea Leaves and Taurus | 1/5/1967 | See Source »

...Adam Clayton Powell, for his unintentional disclosure of the moral decline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 30, 1966 | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...just a poor, humble parish priest, baby." The speaker was Adam Clayton Powell, the Democratic Congressman from Harlem and the pastor of its Abyssinian Baptist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Snakes in Adam's Eden | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...Adam Clayton Powell is no ordinary clergyman - or Congressman. He spends much of his time these days cavorting in a Bahamian hideaway with a beauty queen that he has put on his payroll. He is a fugitive from his own district, where he faces a year and four months in jail for defying a $164,000 libel judgment. He is seen only sporadically in Congress, where his absentee record (50% in 1966 on yea-nay roll-call votes) is one of the worst. His fellow House members have largely stripped him of his authority as chairman of the Education...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Snakes in Adam's Eden | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

...that Adam Clayton Powell is "a Negro who has managed to outplay Whitey at his own game" [Dec. 9] is to encourage the useless emotions of race rivalry. Blaming Adam on the small fraction of Negro heritage he claims and abuses is as inappropriate as blaming the "game" you speak of on Caucasians, for Powell cannot sensibly be considered Negro any more than he can sensibly be considered truly American. The sensitive person of Nordic, African or whatever stock you please places men like Powell in the simple category, "moral garbage," which is a totally integrated system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 23, 1966 | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

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