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Black civil rights leader James Meredith said yesterday in Boston that he suspected "very suspicious games are being played by the politicians trying to solve the school desegregation problem in Boston...
...Meredith, the first black student at the University of Mississippi, said there had been no city or state action to implement Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity's order for school integration...
Died. Bob Montana, 54, cartoonist-creator of the comic strip Archie; of an apparent heart attack while cross-country skiing; near Meredith, N.H. Montana sketched Archie for more than three decades, peopling the strip in part with characters drawn from his New England high school acquaintances...
...great cause of Astroturf dubbed this particular period of sports as the Overlap season. Nowhere does this sports epithet come in more handy than at one of those tailend games when the voice of Phil Rizzutto, By Saam or Jack Brickhouse mysteriously fades into the voice of Don Meredith, Frank Gifford, or Pat Summerall. It's that period when opening football games and even pre-season shinny matches crowd out the boxscores or relegate the baseball standings in losing towns' newspapers to the last page of the sports sections...
...legal fees could easily hit six figures. By resigning, the former President saved his annual retirement pay of $60,000, plus $96,000 a year for staff and expenses. Even without his retirement pay, though, the ex-President would by no means face penury. Literary Agent Scott Meredith (among his clients: Spiro Agnew, Norman Mailer) announced that he had already told an inquiring Nixon aide last month that the Nixon memoirs would probably be worth $2 million, which would more than comfortably cover any legal costs. There are also the papers from the presidential years and earlier that could...