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...highest-ranking Hispanic in the new Administration, Cavazos was an amiable former president of Texas Tech University whose reputation for consensus building contrasted sharply with the contentious style of his predecessor, William Bennett. But the honeymoon is over. Reflecting the view of a growing number of critics, Andrew Griffin, executive officer of the Georgia Association of Educators, dismisses Cavazos as "all talk, no action...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Go to The Rear of the Class | 5/29/1989 | See Source »

...life of a Jewish klansman is not chopped liver. Jordan Gollub, who was born of Jewish parents in Philadelphia, managed despite that fact to become Grand Dragon of the Virginia chapter of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1985 he was dismissed by Virgil Griffin, the self-proclaimed national leader of the anti-black, anti-Semitic hate group. Gollub contends that it was not his Jewish origins that led to his ouster, but an intra-Klan factional dispute. Undeterred, Gollub moved on to Mississippi and snaked his way back into becoming that state's Klan leader. Last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hate: Enter the Ku Klutz Klan | 5/22/1989 | See Source »

Other competitors for the Crimson included freshman Rita Raju, who finished 10th in the triple jump with a distance of 37-ft., 10 1/2-in., and freshman Kathy Griffin. Griffin placed seventh in the shotput with a toss of 13.06 meters and seventh in the hammerthrow with a distance of 44.60 meters...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: W. Thinclads Seventeenth At ECAC's | 5/17/1989 | See Source »

...Crimson women also had the top two finishers in the discus, with Cathy Griffin winning the championship and Mara Beverwyk placing second...

Author: By Christopher M. Thorne, | Title: Track Teams Take Greater Boston Titles | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

...Boys and Howard Johnson's to Allie's." While this was going on, however, some of the old-timers who had obtained their Howard Johnson's franchises from old Howard Johnson himself were fretting about being sold from conglomerate to conglomerate. So they hired onetime Attorney General Griffin Bell to lead them into battle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Reflections on 28 Flavors | 5/1/1989 | See Source »

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