Word: robinsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Arbitrary & Capricious. "We do not come here to challenge the purpose of this act," said South Carolina's David W. Robinson II, 34, who, as special counsel for his state, opened the two-day argument. "We believe that every citizen, white and black, has the right to vote under reasonable state regulation. And we believe the Congress has a duty to enforce that right." Nonetheless, he contended, "the Constitution, as originally drawn, never gave Congress the power to do away with valid voting regulations," while the 15th Amendment, on which the Voting Rights Act is based, "gives Congress...
...Robinson Hall, one of the Design School's other buildings, will also go to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Dean Ford said last week that Robinson would be renovated and used for classroom space...
...more of the follicles sprout, wound up looking like a puckish Rasputin. "I hate shaving anyway," he itched. With that, Ringo took off with beardless John Lennon and their beatlemates, Maureen, the ex-hairdresser, and Cynthia, to spend ten days on Tobago, the storied Caribbean island home of shaggy Robinson Crusoe...
Died. Susannah Robinson Tarkington, 95, widow of Hoosier Novelist Booth Tarkington (The Magnificent Ambersons), whom she married in 1912 and nursed through years of near blindness until his death in 1946; of arteriosclerosis; in Indianapolis...
...Robinson taught courses in early Irish and Welsh. According to Charles W. Dunn '42, professor of Celtic Languages. Dunn, even though a member of the English Department, was of "great assistance" to the Celtic Department...