Word: jr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There is much in your experience from which we can benefit. We would like to learn from you." Several members of the audience sounded eager to teach him. "What we're talking about here is money," Accountant Will Kidd murmured to a luncheon guest. Added Lawyer Thomas Lamar Jr.: "This is a booster town. It doesn't worry so much about political stripes...
Robert J. Ginn Jr., director of the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said yesterday he doubts the tuition tise will discourage students from taking leaves of absence for fear of future tuition increases. "The reasons that people take leaves usually transcend financial considerations," he said...
When a Birmingham church was bombed in 1963 and four black Sunday-school girls were killed, a young white lawyer named Charles Morgan Jr. stood up before the businessmen's club and blamed the entire white community for the crime. Driven out of his town by harassment and death threats, he returned to the South in 1964 as the director of the American Civil Liberties Union Southern Region. He sued for integrated prisons and juries, legislative reapportionment and voting rights, and defended the likes of Muhammad Ali, Julian Bond and Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. Leader Aaron Henry...
...John Janovy Jr...
Even before publication, this journal had assumed a near legendary character. John Janovy Jr., a University of Nebraska parasitologist, was a literary unknown. His manuscript, which deals with such unprepossessing subjects as snails and the parasites that reside in their innards, arrived at the office unsolicited. Usually, such "over-the-transom" offerings are ignored. But something persuaded an editor to take a quick look at this one "just in case." The decision was the literary equivalent of finding a diamond in a stream...