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...take prisoners led to some predictions that he would stumble after the war. But he served with distinction in the Pentagon, Europe and Korea, and displayed sensitivity and tact in 1962 and 1963 when President Kennedy called on him to command federal troops during tense racial confrontations at Oxford, Miss., and Tuscaloosa and Birmingham...
...more than six weeks the 1,700 citizens of Tylertown, Miss., waited on tiptoe for their first celebrity visitor in decades. Last week Martha Mitchell blew into town accompanied by her personal seamstress. Ostensibly on hand for the wedding of her son Jay Jennings to a local girl and fellow dropout from the University of Mississippi Law School Janis Crawford, Martha quickly took the mint out of everyone's juleps...
Dressed flamboyantly, she overshadowed even her blonde daughter-in-law, a former Miss Hospitality of Walthall County, and upstaged the wedding ceremony by arriving late because of a flat tire. As for Tylertown, it quivered at the mention of her name. One guest choked at Martha's description of Richard Nixon as "a dirty son of a bitch." Still, most agreed that years in the Northern wilderness had not spoiled her. Said Tylertown Times Editor Paul Pittman...
Paget added such arguments to her own bid for a larger Radcliffe-oriented athletics staff. But Watson, in an interview, dismissed Paget's call for more women's administrators as a last-ditch effort "to protect her students and the programs she founded. It's very hard for poor Miss Paget," Watson said. "Suddenly she's told that the program she nursed for so many years is about to be swallowed...
Defensively, the linebacking corps appears to be the strongest area, with three holdovers led by All-Ivy Reggie Williams. The defensive line will miss three time All-Ivy end Tom Castari, but the two starting tackles are back and there is a walth of depth at end. The defensive backfield is the chink in the Big Green armor, with only one returning starter. Another Indian problem is filling the shoes of Dartmouth record-holding place kicker Ted Perry...