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James Q. Wilson, Shattuck Professor of Government, is being considered as the top candidate for the presidency of University of Chicago, the Maroon, the university daily, reported yesterday...
...Maroon quoted sources close to the university's trustees that the presidential search committee has sought Wilson for the presidency...
...Eagle bus monitor who was clad head to toe in maroon and gold hoisted me onto a Hyannis-bound charter. Could the bus company have misinterpreted its instructions? Perhaps its idea of The Game of the year between two Irish powers was a little touch football action at the Kennedy compound...
Members of the search committee were unavailable for comment yesterday, but the Chicago Maroon reported that Gaylord Donnelles chairman of the committee and of the Board of Trustees, admitted that Wilson is one of 15 people under consideration...
...silence followed. It was broken only when the ex-Emperor protested, "We have served our people in war and peace." Minutes later, he was led out of his marble palace to a tiny blue two-door Volkswagen. The monarch who for years had been chauffeur-driven in a huge maroon Mercedes-Benz limousine could still not believe what was happening to him. "What? In there?" he asked incredulously. "Yes, in there," replied an officer courteously, as he pulled forward the front seat to enable his passenger to squeeze into the rear. As the auto pulled away, Haile Selassie turned...