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...South Viet Nam." He telephoned Abel and Cooper separately, told each that he wanted "a decent and responsible settlement." Said Abel: "We too have a responsibility-to our membership." At week's end, the President named Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse and Under Secretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins as special mediators to seek a last-minute settlement...
...federal drive is in addition to Los Angeles' long-stalled anti-poverty program, which another presidential envoy, Under Secretary of Commerce LeRoy Collins, finally unsnarled last week. Mayor Sam Yorty and private groups, deadlocked for months over control of the program, agreed to a 25-member anti-poverty board, composed of seven members from poverty areas, six from private agencies, and twelve from local government institutions. The compromise unstoppered $20 million in federal anti-poverty money that had been held up by Washington, and much of it will be funneled into the Watts district...
...important litigations before the Supreme Court. Carl Rowan, onetime Ambassador to Finland, only recently resigned as director of the USIA, where he was chiefly responsible for projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia's first Negro state legislator since Reconstruction. Episcopalian John M. Burgess, son of a dining-car waiter, is Suffragan Bishop of Massachusetts; Dr. Middleton H. Lambright Jr., grandson of a slave, is president of the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. Leslie N. Shaw...
...recent National Urban League meeting in Miami Beach, both Hubert Humphrey and former U.S. Community Relations Chief LeRoy Collins also deplored the deepening gulf between the masses of Negroes and those in the middle classes. When he is reproached for not helping Negroes who are less well-off, the middle-class Negro usually explains that a Negro's views of the race problem depend on his economic level, and owing to different interests and needs, there are few common answers. So "the middle-class Negro," says one of them in Nashville, "goes out on the patio with a drink...
Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...