Word: eastlands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Terry Eastland, Meese's principal spokesman,said the campus backlash against the KennedySchool dean's decision to honor Meese "is just nota matter of overwhelming significance...
...just another speaking invitation,"Eastland said...
Asked if Meese felt insulted by the fact thatDean Graham T. Allison '62 apologized to studentsand faculty for his decision to award Meese themedal, Eastland said, "He has no view on that...
...ironies of Mississippi have forever baffled the outsider, as they should. Two and a half years after Meredith's admission, Governor Ross Barnett's principal antagonist of that time, Bobby Kennedy, gave the commencement address at Ole Miss. He was introduced by Senator Jim Eastland and received a standing ovation. Twelve years after the event, Ben Williams, also of Yazoo City, the first black football player at Ole Miss, was elected Colonel Rebel by the student body, the highest honor for a male student. (He is now with the Buffalo Bills.) More recently, Mississippi's Leontyne Price...
...threat of outside interference in the University, however, extended beyond what one observer called an "awfully stupid" state legislature. In Washington, the Senate Internal Security Committee, headed by Sen. James O. Eastland (D-Miss.), charged that 10 per cent of a group of intellectuals listed as "the most typical sponsors of Communist Front Organizations" had some connection with Harvard. In the House Un-American Activities Committee, the view of Harvard was much the same as in the Senate. Harold H. Velde, the former chairman of the committee, told a group of students that Harvard, as a large center for learning...