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...noticed that your Hoffa profile conveniently ignored the well-known fact in Michigan that good ole Jimmy Hoffa is a power in the Michigan Republican Party...
Innocent Middleman. In Copenhagen, Ole Jensen, arrested for counterfeiting Danish employee holiday stamps-so expertly that he was able to turn them in at post office windows, a book at a time, and collect $64 in refunds-conceded that he knew it was illegal but did not think it really wrong since the post office could reissue the books and recover its money...
...most any other campus, such a cloak-and-dagger tale would seem unbelievable. But in the last two years the whole segregation controversy has had some strange and frightening effects on the Ole Miss campus at Oxford (pop. 3,956). Last week, in a series of articles on the morale of the university, the Greenville (Miss.) Delta Democrat-Times told just how serious those effects have been. Of 136 assistant, associate and full professors, 31 have resigned to seek "greener and freer pastures" elsewhere...
...Ole Miss, professors chafed under the legislature's bullying, became increasingly resentful of the affidavits they were required to sign listing all organizations they had ever joined or contributed to. Some legislators demanded that every book on Negroes be banned from the university library. Others have kept up a running attack on Dean Robert J. Farley of the law school because he signed a document asking respect for the U.S. Supreme Court after its decisions against segregation. Worst of all, the anti-integration hysteria has become so pervasive that many students have become spies and informers for segregationists...
...While Ole Miss seethed with unrest last week, Texas Technological College (enrollment: 8,000) suddenly erupted. On the campus at Lubbock, 300 members of the faculty gathered in angry mass meeting to denounce the board of directors. Reason: the board, meeting in closed session, without giving reasons and without a hearing, had fired two respected members of the faculty. The board's motives for the dismissals were all too obvious. Both Professor of Government Byron Abernethy and Assistant Professor of Psychology Herbert GreeHberg had publicly expressed opinions that the board members-political appointees of former Governor Allan Shivers...