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...obtain reading material. "I read about Washington and Jefferson," he said, "I had never heard of them before, but I did a let of thinking about what they were trying to do." In prison he also found a guard who would sneak him newspapers, and he read about James Meredith who he felt was "another American revolutionary...
...Attorney General Byron White enlisted Katzenbach as a Justice Department lawyer in Washington, and when White went to the Supreme Court, Katzenbach succeeded him. Attorney General Kennedy used Katzenbach most notably as a troubleshooter. He headed the federal forces who fought a pitched battle trying to get Negro James Meredith admitted into the University of Mississippi. It was also Katzenbach who confronted Alabama's Governor George Wallace at the door of a University of Alabama building and, in a memorable scene, demanded that Wallace step aside to permit two Negro students to register. Wallace stepped aside...
Andy Grinstead and Bob Meredith took the 100 freestyle for the third Crimson sweep, and Henry Whelchel led Al Lincoln to the finish in the backstroke. The only race in which a Brown swimmer beat a Harvard swimmer at all was the breastroke. Harvard's Bob Corris swam by Brown's Tom Wilder and Nick Whitlam took third for the varsity...
Regulars Tony Singleton, Bruce Fowler, Al Rose, and captain Dave Abramson won the medley relay, and a quartet of Padway, Meredith, Teaford, and Eric Klaussman won the freestyle combination...
...onetime Princeton basketball player who practiced law for ten years in New Richmond, Wis., Doar is a model of raw courage. At Ole Miss with Chief U.S. Marshall McShane, when mobs tried to block the entrance of the university's first Negro student, James Meredith, Doar risked his own life three times to contact the besieged feds in the campus Lyceum. With Deputy (now Acting) Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach, he walked past Governor George Wallace in the doorway at the University of Alabama. Doar is best remembered as the hero of a vivid confrontation between rock-tossing Negroes...