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...Bronx Catholic high school, the dean greeted two boys with a pair of shears, quickly lopped off their locks. In Houston, the son of a Rice University professor was kicked out of Lamar High School just five days after it opened for refusing to get a "proper haircut." At the Tremper High School in Kenosha, Wis., no less than 175 boys were turned away from the school's doors because of their hairdos...
Police chased the car until it crashed into a telephone pole. The driver, Willie James Lamar, 21, a Negro, jumped out, was found moments later hiding in a thicket. Charlie Lee Hopkins, also 21 and Negro, was arrested three hours later and, along with Lamar, booked for murder...
...life of the Mormon prophet, Anie Dick Obot of Uyo decided to form a branch of the church in Nigeria, and wrote for more information to Mormon headquarters in Salt Lake City. Mormon leaders sent back books explaining their laws and doctrines, and in 1959 dispatched to Africa Elder Lamar Williams, who was much impressed by the Nigerians' zeal and orthodoxy. Since then, the Nigerian Saints, governed by Obot and a council of 75 elders, have established branches in six cities...
Harvard is unimpressed with Nilon's idea. "A training camp is like a carnival grounds, and is hardly conducive to an educational environment," Henry N. Lamar, past coach of Harvard's now defunct boxing team, said last night...
...buttress his education program, Lyndon Johnson reached all the way back to the Continental Congress, which in 1787 proclaimed that schools "shall forever be encouraged," and to Mirabeau B. Lamar, second president of the Republic of Texas and "the father of Texas education," who remarked in 1838 that "the cultivated mind is the guardian genius of democracy." The President also reached back to his own experience in Congress...