Word: mardian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Robert Mardian, executive director of Richard Nixon's Cabinet Committee on Education, has earned the grudging nickname of "the Mixmaster" from Southerners for using just such tough language with local officials who still maintain separate school systems for blacks and whites. For an Administration widely thought to be wedded to a "Southern strategy," the new hardline tactics add up to a welcome drive to end de jure segregation in the South. Elliot Richardson, sworn in last week as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Robert Finch, his predecessor, have vowed publicly that by the time Southern schools reopen...