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Died. William Fife Knowland, 65, former Republican floor leader in the U.S. Senate; by his own hand (gunshot); near Monte Rio, Calif. Knowland was appointed to the U.S. Senate in 1945 by Family Friend Governor Earl Warren after the death of Hiram W. Johnson. As majority floor leader from 1953 to 1955 and minority leader through 1958, Knowland advocated a hard line on Asian Communism and opposed the entry of Red China into the U.N. A stubborn, thunder-voiced politician, he decided to improve his presidential chances by running for the California governorship in 1958. After losing to Pat Brown...
Letters by Hawaii's congressional delegation urging federal intervention in the strikes were almost wholly ignored in Washington. Even efforts by pro-Nixon Senator Hiram L. Fong failed to relieve the problem; Hawaii had to wait for management and labor to reach settlement by themselves...
...lineup last week: For Gray?Republicans Marlow Cook, Hiram Fong, Edward Gurney, Roman Hruska, Hugh Scott, Strom Thurmond and Democrat James Eastland. Against Gray?Democrats Birch Bayh, Quentin Burdick, Robert Byrd, Sam Ervin, Philip Hart, Edward Kennedy and John Tunney. Undecided?Republican Charles Mathias and Democrat John McClelland...
Virginia Governor Linwood Holton and his department of welfare and institutions brushed away the complaints like gnats on a summer day. So a group of Green Springs' principal property owners, led by Colonel and Mrs. Hiram Ely, who own a renowned Tuscan-style villa named Hawkwood, turned to the courts. They demanded federal intervention, since Washington was to pay $775,000 of the prison's construction costs. In one resultant "environmental impact" statement made last summer, the U.S. Justice Department called the historic site "undesirable." Then a study by the Interior Department concluded last month that any grant...
...article on Hiram Scott College may have given your readers the erroneous impression that Parsons College is still an unaccredited college headed by Millard Roberts. Parsons was reaccredited in 1970, and Dr. Roberts has not been president since...