Word: gro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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MICHIGAN STATE. Clifton R. Wharton Jr., 43, is the first Ne gro to head a major American university that is predominantly white. He is less interested in his significance as a black "first" than in enlarging Michigan State University's commitment to his consuming interest - combatting poverty and pro moting agricultural growth at home and in underdeveloped countries. An economist long associated with the Rockefeller-backed Agricultural Development Council, Wharton was endorsed for the presidency by a student-faculty screening committee and elected by the trustees over two other nominees, including Michigan's ex-Governor G. Mennen Williams...