Word: provosts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After some futile discussion with Wadleigh and with provost Jerome Wiesner, most of the group left the corridor outside Johnson's office. About 175 SACC members gathered in the lobby of the building and listened to speakers while the rest went...
...protestors left peacefully at 7 p.m., shortly after an announcement from Charles Taylor, Yale Provost, Taylor told them that they had been suspended pending further disciplinary action and that Yale would get a court injunction to remove them...
...Johnson, provost Jerome B. Wiesner, and M.I.T. Corporation head James R. Killian are among those whose offices will be occupied. If they are present, the NAC spokesman said, they will be told to leave. And if they refuse, they will be evicted bodily, "unless doing so would start a pitched battle...
From the CIS the demonstrators will march back to the administration building and occupy selected offices there until 4 p.m., closing time. The offices of president Howard W. Johnson and provost Jerome Wiesner will be among those occupied. The same policy on evictions will be employed in the administration offices...
Turner, a short, peppery former paratrooper, was called before the committee last week, but most of the interrogation involved his admitted sale of Army guns for personal profit. Turner acknowledged that, when he was provost marshal general and shortly after he retired, he had received 688 weapons confiscated by police and customs officials. At the time, he signed receipts saying the guns were for Army use, but in his testimony he insisted that the receipts were a mere "formality." Not so, said a spokesman for one of the donors, Chicago Police Superintendent James Conlisk: "The general is engaging in falsehood...