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...junior singles, Ed Tripp, who rowed for the Yale and Cambridge crews and for the Leander Boat Club at Henley, will be an entrant from Weld Boathouse...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fall Regatta to Feature Masters, Vesper Crew | 10/16/1965 | See Source »

...South's most bitter racial disputes. In 1955, white Catholics refused to attend a Louisiana church to which a Negro priest had been assigned. Three years ago, when the late Archbishop Joseph Francis Rummel ordered parochial schools integrated, Catholics protested so vehemently that three, including Political Boss Leander Perez, were excommunicated. One of the three, Mrs. Bernard J. Gaillot, last week called Bishop Perry's appointment "another reason why God will destroy the Vatican...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Historic Bishop | 10/8/1965 | See Source »

...Louisiana, Plaquemines Parish Boss Leander Perez urged whites to offset Negro voting gains by "rushing to the registrar's office." His plea had scant effect. In New Orleans, where there are 122,000 unregistered whites, the local registrar one day last week enrolled 386 Negroes−and 14 whites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The South: Squeezing the Trigger | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

...where Segregationist Boss Leander Perez has kept civil rights workers at a safe distance by converting a swampy, snake-infested onetime Spanish fort on the Mississippi River into a concentration camp in anticipation of "racial demonstrators." Said Katzenbach: "If you are going to send examiners into Louisiana and don't send them into Plaquemines, then they can say you haven't any guts." Same as Whites. In the nine gut counties he finally selected-four in Alabama, three in Louisiana, two in Mississippi-Katzenbach said, the percentage of eligible white citizens on the voting rolls ranges from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Rights: Trigger of Hope | 8/20/1965 | See Source »

...Harvard four-with, cox lost in the quarters to the Tideway Scullers, who lost in turn in the finals to the Leander Rowing Club boat, manned by four former Yale rowers all of whom lowed for Oxford this year...

Author: By Donald E. Graham, | Title: Varsity Crew Bows To Olypmic Champs | 7/6/1965 | See Source »

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