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...Negro legislators. In Alabama's Lowndes County, black voters?who outnumber whites 55% to 45%?were less than enthusiastic about Stokely Carmichael's aggressive Black Panther ticket, which went down to defeat. Elsewhere in the state, several Negroes were elected, notably Macon County's Lucius Amerson, 32, a Korean War paratrooper and former postal clerk who became the South's only Negro sheriff. In Dallas County, Selma's public-safety director, Wilson Baker, who acted with memorable restraint during last year's voting-rights demonstrations, was elected sheriff over Incumbent Jim Clark, whose brutal treatment of Negroes shocked...
First reaction from the companies was understandably wary. Because "no Kohler witnesses were called to testify or were interviewed by Government attorneys," Kohler Vice President and General Counsel Lucius P. Chase said he was not even sure of "what our company is alleged to have done." Chicago's Borg-Warner Corp., one of the 15, knew of no "basis for the charges." American-Standard Chairman Joseph A. Grazier was certain that "the charges against us will prove to be unfounded...
...School of Public Administration to the John F. Kennedy School of Government, and moving the school's quarters from Littauer Center to the Library site at the repair yards of the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. The Court agreed with Harvard that neither of these changes violates the terms of Lucius N. Littauer's gift establishing the School...
While the impact of our major stories, such as the cover and Essay, are well known, even we were somewhat surprised at the scope of the reaction to that 100-line story in the Education section. "Nothing has ever happened to Miles," says President Lucius Pitts, "that was as beneficial as the article in TIME" Soon after the story appeared, Miles began receiving contributions from all over the world. Kenneth Montgomery, a Chicago attorney, was so moved by the school's plight that he sent Pitts a check for $15,000. Residents of Bombay, India, raised...
Brutus' young page Lucius is the only character Shakespeare did not find in Plutarch, and he was invented chiefly to illustrate Brutus' considerateness of others. Fifteen-year-old Alan Howard plays him ardently and appealingly. When he falls asleep in the midst of singing and plucking his harp, Brutus affectionately covers him with a gown. When, after the battle at Philippi, Lucius is carried in, lain on the ground and tenderly shrouded in a blanket, one is more moved than by the death of any of the play's principals...