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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...intended to resign last fall as executive director. After 15 years in the A.C.L.U., he admits, "I'm combat weary." But he postponed his exit a year to see the A.C.L.U. through the Skokie crisis. Internal wrangling, which forced Washington Director Charles Morgan Jr. and Legal Director Melvin Wulf out of the organization, has added to the strain on Neier. So has the revelation that union officials passed along information about its membership to the Federal Bureau of Investigation during the 1950s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The High Cost of Free Speech | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

...kidney failure in 1976, his purported will surfaced mysteriously in Salt Lake City on a desk at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Dubbed the Mormon will, the document bequeathed his fortune to an improbable collection of institutions and individuals, including a Utah gas station attendant, Melvin Dummar, who claimed that he had once given Hughes a ride to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Fortune Won | 6/19/1978 | See Source »

...true that Fine is a big fan of soul music. Beaming proudly at a poster on his Claverly wall yesterday afternoon. Fine pointed and said, "You see that? That's my Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes poster. I like to get down to that Philly sound...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Cagers Select Fine, Hooft to Lead 78-'79 Squad | 4/29/1978 | See Source »

...following article, by Melvin E. Reeves '73-4 and Harvard W. Stephens '73-4, is a response to an article by Martin L. Kilson Jr., professor of Government, in last week's issue of The Harvard Independent. Kilson wrote that black solidarity among students at Harvard has become "an ethnic thumb-sucking disaster...

Author: By Melvin E. Reeves and Harvard W. Stephens, S | Title: Solidarity in Search of Identity | 4/25/1978 | See Source »

...they reach an accord, it will have to be ratified by the Senate before taking effect. But fears persist on Capitol Hill that the Soviets have underhandedly violated the old SALT agreement and cannot be trusted to keep a new one. Indeed, former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird accused Moscow of exactly that in a recent article in the Reader's Digest titled, Arms Control: The Russians Are Cheating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Trying to Soothe SALT'S Critics | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

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