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...four-man Harvard squad scored a composite 315 on the damp Burlington (Vt.) Country Club Course. Providence College and the University of Rhode Island tied for second place...
...sides spoke only through counsel. Dr. Murphy's lawyer said that "the decision completely vindicates all his acts to date." If the Murphy children never live with the easy spaciousness the Rockefellers can command, they are scarcely condemned to squalor. Dr. Murphy, a descendant of Samuel Slater, the Rhode Island textile pioneer, is, well-to-do in his own right. Dr. Murphy's father was head of the cancer-research laboratory of the Rockefeller Institute for 40 years...
President Johnson was well over an hour late for his first appearance, at the 200th anniversary convocation at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. As soon as he arrived at the airport and began a motorcade through the city, he was mobbed by enthusiastic supporters, who persuaded him to stop and speak at approximately 15 street coruers...
...Senator Goldwater is a direct lineal descendant of the great Puritan preacher Roger Williams, who founded the colony of Rhode Island. There are remarkable parallels in the careers of the two men. though three centuries separate them. Individual freedom is the primary concern of both their lives. Williams wrote The Bloody Tenent of Persecution for the Cause of Conscience (1644), and Goldwater wrote The Conscience of a Conservative (1960). Williams led the fight against religious regimentation in his day, just as Goldwater leads the struggle against government regimentation in our times. Both were special friends to the American Indians...
Ingalls is building five more such ships, and New Orleans' Avondale Shipyards is working on twelve highly automated freighters for the Lykes Bros, line, the first of which was christened last week. An automated tanker, the Texaco Rhode Island, has just completed sea trials off Bethlehem Steel's Sparrows Point yards in Maryland. Several other companies are also building pushbutton vessels. This full turn to automation represents a brave effort by the $2 billion private U.S. shipbuilding industry to regain the seagoing supremacy that it has lost to foreign competitors...