Word: howe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their attempts to resist the federal drive toward school desegregation, Southern officials have found a ready whipping boy in U.S. Education Com missioner Harold Howe II. Though Howe has strictly followed the dictates of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, his zeal in implementing racial guidelines in the Deep South has fostered the belief among Southern Congressmen that he has discriminated against their districts while ignoring similar imbalances in Northern cities. Last week, in an obvious horse trade aimed at rallying reluctant Southern support for its hard-pressed $3.5 billion school-aid bill, the Johnson Administration transferred civil rights enforcement powers...
...result in at least a temporary pause while administrative gears are shifted. For Gardner, one of the ablest and most popular Administration figures on Capitol Hill, the shift promises nothing but trouble. Asked if it meant "transferring the kitchen across the street"-putting the heat on him instead of Howe-Gardner smiled wanly and replied: "I wouldn't be surprised...
...elected its officers for 1967-68: Andrew P. Tobias '68, president Richard T. Howe '69, Jeremy J. Kinross-Wright '68, Stephrn B. Roy '68, Robert R. Weller '68, Jeffrey G. Wright '68, student directors; John F. Bevilaqua '69, treasurer; Max Lee Kiehne '68, clerk...
...defensive positions atop a hill on the east bank of the river where they were reinforced by three other cavalry companies, but remained pinned for nearly 20 hours, fighting off as many as 4,000 Indians. Only with the threat of the arrival of fresh troops under General Alfred Howe Terry did the Indians break off the siege...
...mile Harvard's Jim Baker ran a quick 3:02 three-quarters to build up an almost insurmountable 70-yard lead over Yale's Steve Bittner. But 200 yards from the tape, Baker hit a series of brick walls and crept in third, behind Bittner and Harvard's Dick Howe...