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Elliott L. Richardson '41, secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the Nixon Administration, and A. Philip Randolph, a civil rights leader and former head of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, headed the list of honorary degree recipients at the 320th Harvard Commencement today...
...Hearst newspapers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Conniff won a wide audience as a combat reporter in Europe during World War II and later in Korea. He became a member of the Hearst "Task Force" and shared a 1955 Pulitzer Prize with Joseph Kingsbury-Smith and William Randolph Hearst Jr. for the trio's exclusive interview with Nikita Khrushchev. Conniff's last major assignment was as editor of the short-lived New York World Journal Tribune...
Even the British have long recognized that their currency system, which dates from the 8th century,* was ridiculously eccentric. Still, there seemed to be an almost atavistic aversion to what Randolph Churchill called "those damn dots...
...Force takes a more relaxed attitude toward all of the talk about humanizing military life, claiming, with some justification, that the interdependence of officer-pilots, enlisted crews and mechanics has long promoted an informal closeness. "There's no saluting in the flight line," observes a mechanic at Randolph Air Force Base. Indeed, enlisted personnel have normally lived in two-or three-man rooms since the 1950s, and their technical expertise has earned them better treatment than in other services. Major General Frank M. Madsen Jr., commander of Keesler Air Force Base, discloses that he has three enlisted men who report...
...When you come back to the States and the [white] Man's going say, 'Sorry, son, but I'm going to give you these rights, but you ain't ready for the rest of them yet,' after I put my life on the line. Uh-uh," said Sgt. Randolph Doby, a black Marine from Milwaukee in Danang. "The man who says that, I'm going to try to kill him. If I can't kill him, he's going to wish he were dead...