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...dismissal of Clark Kerr as president of the University of California was a rude rebuff to an excellent administrator. In eight years, he helped build the university into the strongest public university in the country. His departure solves nothing, for no reputable successor is likely to agree to replace him until many Californians, particularly Governor Reagan, outgrow their belief that the state can have an excellent educational system and not collect taxes...
...event affects business and business men. "Anything is fair game," says Managing Editor Ed Cony. In recent months leaders have widened the lens to look at how the "black power" dream has boomeranged on national civil rights groups, then narrowed it down to see how summer resorts subtly rebuff Negro vacationers and how newly integrated Negro schoolchildren in Alabama have met an "invisible wall" of social and economic barriers...
...rebuff by the 122,000-member association would have meant serious trouble in the Senate for the jury provision of the Civil Rights Bill of 1966, which passed in House yesterday...
...Rebuff for Restraint. Wilson also had troubles inside the Labor Party. Minister of Technology Frank Cousins (see THE WORLD), a dedicated, emotional trade union leader, resigned in protest against Wilson's aim of holding down wage increases. The dispute hardly bolstered confidence in the British econ omy or the value of the pound...
Feisal, in fact, may have been just as glad. New York's official rebuff hardly negated the warm welcome he had received from President Johnson in Washington, his interested visits to Williamsburg and other historic sites, or the friendly applause he was to hear at the U.N., where U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg dutifully attended a banquet for the King. Indeed, the furor effectively countered charges by leftist Arabs, led by Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser, that Saudi Arabia was merely a tool of the U.S. "On balance," mused a State Department expert, "this probably helps...