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DIED. IDA LUPINO, 77, actress, screenwriter and director; in Burbank, California. The London-born Lupino starred as the woman from the wrong side of the tracks opposite Golden Age leading men like Humphrey Bogart and John Garfield. When the director of Not Wanted (1949) collapsed from a heart attack, co-producer Lupino took the helm, thereby backing into a directing career that peaked with her popular portrait of a murderer, 1953's The Hitch-Hiker...
...Humphrey Doermann '52, who served as director of admissions from 1961 until 1966, says he remembers Jewett as being courteous and cool-headed...
...shock and a surprise that this happened," said Humphrey Wattenga '96, a native of Kenya who met Tadesse during first-year orientation week. "Sinedu was usually soft-spoken. She was reserved in a way, but someone I considered a good friend. We are all saddened by this affair and [by] the loss of both students...
While guiding the Civil Right Act through the Senate, Sen. Hubert Humphrey explicitly assured senators that the bill "does not require an employer to achieve any kind of racial balance in his work force by giving preferential treatment to any individual or group." In a memo to the Senate, the floor managers of the bill assured their colleagues that "any deliberate attempt to maintain a racial balance, whatever such a balance may be, would involve a violation of Title VII [of the Act] because maintaining such a balance would require an employer to hire or to refuse to hire...
Nelson has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota since 1983, where she has taught political science, women's studies, social work and American studies. Since 1989, Nelson has been a professor at the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs...