Word: rowan
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Flying to Southeast Asia in 1961 on one of his first foreign-policy assignments from President Kennedy, Vice President Lyndon Johnson was nervous and irritable. He vented his sensitivities on staffers, particularly on Carl T. Rowan, the press adviser the State Department had assigned to accompany him. Several times Johnson berated Rowan in front of newsmen. Several times Rowan talked right back...
...part of the Negro protest movement as those who lie-in, sit-in and pray-in. "I feel I can serve best by doing a reasonable job here," says Negro Space Engineer Spencer Robinson. "My presence, I believe, has paved the way for others of my race." Carl T. Rowan, one of three Negro U.S. ambassadors, sees a broader implication in the success of individual Negroes. "Every Negro American in a position of responsibility who discharges his duty faithfully and well, whose conduct is laudable, is making a real contribution to the struggle by bringing along a segment...
Finally, within hours of President Kennedy's assassination, Johnson called in U.S. Ambassador to Finland Carl Rowan, 38, for a chat. Since Johnson's problems of the moment hardly included the diplomatic climate in Helsinki, it seemed certain that Rowan was getting a job offer. A Negro and a onetime reporter for the Minneapolis Tribune, where he won awards for his reportage of U.S. racial tensions, Rowan was named Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs in 1961, was a Johnson adviser on the Vice President's travels abroad. Speculation had it that Press Secretary Pierre...
...third, he for the second time; in a highly informal ceremony conducted by her 85-year-old father over the dining room table at his Flat Rock, N.C., home, followed by a civil marriage in Washington. Carl's wedding presents: one donkey, named Picco, three goats, named Rama, Rowan, and Fleur...
...Hypocritical," cried the upstaged Republican National Committee. Among the President's guests: Roy Wilkins, executive secretary of the N.A.A.C.P., John Johnson, publisher of Ebony, and, of course, the most prominent Negro members of the Administration-Robert C. Weaver, head of the Housing and Home Finance Agency, and Carl Rowan, Ambassador-designate to Finland. Menu: shrimp Creole, curried chicken, ham, turkey, and two kinds of punch, not counting the political kind...