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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Boyish-looking, fast-talking Callaway, 48, is no stranger to controversy. Member of a Georgia textile family whose fortune has been estimated at $40 million, he holds a commission from West Point, served three years in Korea and is a former regent of the University of Georgia. He was originally a states' rights Democrat. But he bolted the party to support Barry Goldwater in 1964, and was elected to Congress as a Republican. In the House he fought against the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Medicare and most other Great Society programs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: I Think I Can Help Jerry Ford' | 10/27/1975 | See Source »

...trip only whetted his appetite for more: in Paris, he told an American newsman that he hoped a visit to the U.S. would only be a briefly "deferred pleasure." It turned out to be a long postponement. Soon after he returned home in 1921, Hirohito was declared Prince Regent for his deranged father; by 1926 he was Emperor, and a few years later Japan embarked on the ill-starred experiment in expansionism that finally ended with the nuclear holocausts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JAPAN: The Emperor Finally Comes to Call | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...archetypal 1930s lounge lizards with beautifully cut moustaches and social registers in their back pockets, respond: "Hear, hear, quite right, D.B." and thump on the table in a hollow variant of old-time prep school enthusiasm. The movie's scene could just as easily have had California regents like Edward Carter, the president and co-owner of a department store chain, gasping with admiration at the words of Reagan, another regent at that meeting...

Author: By Jim Kaplan, | Title: Who Rules the Universities? | 10/6/1975 | See Source »

...educated at the court in Addis Ababa. After Menelik's death in 1913, the nobility decided that the Emperor's grandson, Lij (Count) Hasu, was too dissolute to take over the throne. They installed Hasu's mother Zauditu, as Empress, and chose Tafari to be her regent and heir to the throne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: The Lion Is Freed | 9/8/1975 | See Source »

...civil rights advocates, the decision of the New York State Board of Regents came as a bitter surprise. Once in the forefront of the drive for school desegregation, the board announced recently that it will no longer consider the racial balance in enrollment to determine if a school is in compliance with state integration laws. Instead, the regents will henceforth require New York schools only to make a "serious effort" to desegregate. The decision, black Regent Kenneth Clark said bluntly, was "a tragic retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Retreat from Integration | 2/17/1975 | See Source »

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