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BEDFORD, Mass.—When Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote for a unanimous Supreme Court in 1954 that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” America took the first step towards desegregating its public schools. That process, which the court ordered to take place with “all deliberate speed,” was agonizingly slow; a decade later, less than 1 percent of black students in the Deep South attended integrated schools...
...lost his World Boxing Organization junior bantamweight title fight; in Las Vegas. Alcazar showed no signs of injury immediately after the bout, before suddenly collapsing. DIED. MILES FRANCIS STAPLETON FITZALAN-HOWARD, 86, the 17th Duke of Norfolk; in Henley-on-Thames, England. As holder of the office of earl marshal, the duke was the country's senior nobleman. His duties included organizing the annual state opening of Parliament by the Queen. DIED. PIERRE WERNER, 88, the former Prime Minister of Luxembourg who in 1970 conceived the idea for a single European currency; in Luxembourg. SENTENCED. OLEG KALUGIN, 67, in absentia...
...anonymous source who divulged key facts about the Watergate break-in and cover-up to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Dean, whose incriminating Senate testimony led President Nixon to call him a traitor, has twice before proffered theories on the shadowy source--naming Watergate prosecutor Earl Silbert and Nixon White House chief of staff Alexander Haig, both of whom denied it. In his latest attempt, Dean has narrowed in on Jonathan Rose, a Nixon White House attorney. Rose adamantly and, to Dean, persuasively denied the accusation, leaving Dean with a list of four finalists instead. Dean...
After exams the Crimson continued its hot streak and played another 60 minutes of solid basketball. Hosting Brown on national television, Gellert shut down the Bears’ top threat, Earl Hunt, limiting him to six points...
...those inside the vintage-leather beltway of fashion, there are cognoscenti labels. Earl jeans, generally deemed the harbingers of the low-rise trend, have had to make way for those made by Seven, the ultimate insider jeans, with a discreet label, no advertising and a monthly production limited to 100,000 pairs. Then there are dozens of little labels: Miss Sixty, Juicy Jeans, Paper Denim. "It's a wild thing from a fashion standpoint to keep up with this," says Robert Burke, senior fashion director at Bergdorf Goodman. "Consumers move on with these brands very quickly. It's become...