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...Somewhat confused over the order of events, Royal was found at the other end of the pool warming up when the call to the blocks for his race came. With Harvard in some danger of losing the meet that this point, coach Joe Bernal quickly gave Royal a personal escort to the starting blocks. Penalized one false start for his tardiness, the Crimson breaststroker had to remain clam at the start as each of the three Penn swimmers in turn tried to draw him off and get him to disqualify himself. Finally the race got underway, and the Leverett House...
...waning since November over a desegregation plan for Rapides Parish: Federal Judge Nauman Scott, who devised it, and State Judge Richard Lee, who helped the girls fight a transfer from Buckeye High to racially mixed Jones Street School. In defiance of the integration order, Lee sent state troopers to escort the students to Buckeye and even did the job himself for four days. In a two-hour session in his courtroom, Scott stressed that he would not retreat on the desegregation plan; he said it would be unfair to the 322 whites already at Jones Street School if the holdouts...
This week's hearing probably will result in a simple choice for Lee: fall in line or continue to risk a fine of up to $1,000 a day. The contempt papers also name a constable who assisted Lee as an escort, Waites, the school superintendent, the parents and the friends who took custody of the three girls...
Where he once delighted in gunning his Citroen through Paris traffic to lose his police escort for the evening, Giscard is now nearly as distant and imperious as Louis XIV. He has, for instance, decreed that when he dines, no one except a head of state or Mme. Giscard may sit opposite him. The President, now openly referred to as "the Monarch," and his family are served before any of the guests...
Lowry Hemphill '72 helped escort the deans out of University Hall that April and her face appeared in the photographs taken on the building's steps. But unlike the older students involved in removing the deans--students with a record of prominence and leadership in SDS--Hemphill was "an unknown freshman," and she believes that had something to do with her comparatively light sentence. The Committee of Fifteen handed her a "warning," then dismissed three students for the same wrongdoing...