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Spurr's firing touched off a ruckus on Texas' Austin campus. Several days later, some 3,000 students attended a rally to protest the regents' action. The university faculty voted overwhelmingly for LeMaistre's resignation. Said History Professor Standish Meacham: "It was done in the best Texas bushwacker tradition. He was fired in the wrong way on a trumped-up charge." Lady Bird Johnson, the only regent who abstained from the 8-to-O vote upholding the ouster, said in a choked voice, "No great educational institution can sustain its greatness with the frequent and sudden...
...Perilous Job. True enough-but the Spurr affair was an eloquent reminder of recurring campus politics at Texas, the second richest (after Harvard) and fifth largest university (73,000 students) in the nation. The firing typified the style of the man who forced Chancellor Le-Maistre to do it: Regent Frank C. Erwin Jr., an ex-Democratic national committeeman and crony of Lyndon B. Johnson and former Governor John Connally. Erwin has really run the 16-campus university for more than a decade. Four years ago, for example, he personally fired Liberal Philosopher John Silber as dean of Austin...
...Cross, praying, "Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Stretching compassion, one might argue that Nixon was so caught up in the pressures of the presidency, and is so exhausted now, that he "knows not what he did." But Evangelical Theologian Clark Pinnock of Regent College in Vancouver, B.C., argues that such generous forgiveness is for the truly ignorant, "the little people who were swept up in what was going...
Love Affair. Ethiopia's rases (feudal lords) in 1916 chose Haile Selassie to be regent and heir to Empress Zauditu. Fourteen years later, when the Empress died suddenly, he was crowned the 255th Emperor of the Menelik line, which, legend claims, sprang more than 2,500 years ago from the celebrated love affair between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. For the next 44 years he ruled unchallenged, except for the Italian occupation and for a brief and abortive palace coup at the end of 1960. During his reign, the Emperor demanded all the obsequiousness due absolute power...
Though established as a name, Nicholson is in the first flush of excitement at being a household word right now, and he is handling it with the respectable glee and half (but only that) the mocking humor of a sort of cutup prince regent. He is talking to Stanley Kubrick about playing Napoleon, to Bernardo Bertolucci about being the Continental Op in a film of Dashiell Hammett's Red Harvest. Milos Forman is waiting for him to finish Fortune, so he can start playing McMurphy in an adaptation of Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo...