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...while visiting my uncle, the Rev. Ellis Alford, in Hattiesburg, Miss., I met Vernon Dahmer Sr., who with my uncle and others, including some whites, was planning the strategy to elect a white woman as insurance commissioner. Dahmer was an impressive, deliberate man who was very easy to talk with. In late 1965 at March Air Force Base in California, I met his son Vernon Jr., who was characteristically like his father. The death of his father the following January made quite a stir. In 1966, you see, Riverside County, Calif., had much in common with Forest County, Miss...
...world's wealthiest university refused to rev up a hidden "star system" of academic perks, some professors complained of stinginess, and one department faced high attrition in the face of an aggressively spending competitor...
DECEMBER: Rev. Jesse L. Jacksonaddresses thousands of union supporters at a rallyin Harvard Yard, endorsing HUCTW's position in theincreasingly strained labor negotiations. Asettlement between HUCTW and the University isreached early in the following year...
Inside, seniors packed the pews. Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals and Minister in Memorial Church Rev. Peter J. Gomes presided over the ceremony, seated in the front of the sanctuary...
...understandable desire to learn the full truth. Pepper's de facto accomplice is Phillip Jones, an old friend of Dexter King's, the martyred leader's son who heads the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta. Jones' firm, Intellectual Properties Management, is responsible for marketing the Rev. King's writings and speeches. With Jones' help, King's relatives have made deals that could net them and their agents tens of millions of dollars: one deal with Hollywood conspiracist Oliver Stone for a film about the assassination; another with Time Warner, this magazine's owner, for a series...