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...white Local 212 of the International Brother hood of Electrical Workers, but none has been better qualified or more persistent than Anderson L. Dobbins, 37. A graduate of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a predominantly Negro liberal arts college, he passed a city electrician's exam in Newport News, Va. In Cincinnati, he tried off and on for years to join the local-in vain. The union said he had to get work before he could be a member; the employers said he could not work without a union card. Last month, in a direct attack on color barriers...
...watched Red Grange and Tom Harmon, but Keyes is the greatest all-round player I've ever seen," says Purdue Coach Jack Mollenkopf. All-round athlete would be more accurate. In his senior year at George Washington Carver High School in Newport News, Va., Keyes scored 21 touchdowns in football, led the basketball team with an average 27.5 points per game, and set a state track record with a 24-ft. 4½-in. long jump. More than 80 colleges were after him until he chose Purdue. There, in his first varsity year, he was a defensive back-until...
...Doorley machine in Providence and the conservative organization at a state level. With Brown student Leonard O'Brien, chairman of Rhode Island Students for Kennedy, challenging a Doorley candidate in Providence this fall, the liberal move has begun. Leaders of the Coalition are state Sen. Mrs. Eleanor Slater and Newport councilman David Fenton. Sen. John O. Pastore can be expected to aid the old guard if the challenge becomes serious...
...suburban Scarsdale, N.Y., where both Loew's Chairman Laurence A. Tisch and Lorillard Chairman Manuel Yellen live. Meeting at the Tisch home in Scarsdale, Tisch and Yellen were able to work out within one week a deal by which Lorillard's product line (Kent, True, Newport, Old Gold and Spring cigarettes, Tabby cat food and Reed candies) will join the 14 hotels and 110 theaters controlled by Tisch and a younger brother. The merged company, which will have combined annual sales of more than $700 million, will undoubtedly be making more acquisitions...
Since her husband left for Viet Nam in March, Lynda Bird Robb has filled her days writing for McCall's, visiting Houston's Astro-World, playgoing in New York and gallery-hopping in Washington. This month she nipped off to Newport for a weekend of yachting with Socialite Topsy Taylor and other friends. But such activity for Mrs. Robb, who expects her first child in October, will come to a screeching halt. So says L.B.J. By paternal/presidential command, Lynda has been told she must stop traveling in September...