Word: mccrocklin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCrocklin Caper. Though moribund, it did not die. And lately, it has shown every sign of revival. One recent issue reported the revolt of black athletes at the University of Texas' El Paso branch; another took up the cudgels for a long-neglected tribe of Indians. As usual, both stories had been largely ignored by the daily Texas press. So was the Observer's inside account of the editorial revolt and shake-up at the Austin American-Statesman, where pinchpenny management refused to replate for another edition on the night of Robert Kennedy's death...
...impertinence has sent tremors all the way to Washington. Shortly after L.B.J. named the president of Southwest Texas State College, his alma mater, as No. 2 man in the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, the Observer published a decidedly embarrassing report on the Johnson appointee. Dr. James H. McCrocklin, the paper said, had won his doctoral degree with a dissertation almost identical to a master's thesis submitted by his wife a year earlier. The Observer not only gave paragraph-for-paragraph proof of its contention but also revealed that McCrocklin had sat on the three-man faculty...
...Haiti. The military-affairs writer for the Detroit News, Robert D. Heinl Jr., a retired Marine colonel, says that the theses also bear strange similarities to an official 1934 Marine Corps report and a 1939 Marine history of the American intervention. In 1955, when the Naval Institute published McCrocklin's dissertation as a book, it listed him as "compiler" rather than author. In Who's Who in America, however, McCrocklin credited himself as author. Often mentioned as a candidate for the presidency of the University of Texas when L.B.J. begins teaching there next year, McCrocklin has been more...
...editor, Greg Olds, 33. A hulking (6 ft. 2 in.) University of Texas journalism graduate, Olds moved into the top slot two years ago after an uneventful career on several other small Texas papers. Unsure of himself at first, he shunned controversy and even ignored a tip about the McCrocklin thesis for nearly two years. But now he has decided to trade punditry for punch. He has prepared a list of 20 sensitive subjects into which he soon plans to dig-"things like the state insurance agency and the Big Thicket, the stand of virgin forest where the lumber companies...
When the President fills vacant posts, appointments have an odor of the payoff. James McCrocklin, new Under Secretary of HEW, is a former president of Southwest Texas State College, which boasts one really distinguished alumnus, named Johnson. The new Ambassador to Australia, Bill Crook, is known as a "good guy," but he is also a Texan. The fact is, not many Washingtonians-or Americans-really care now who gets the Johnson...
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