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Connection, Harvard's visual arts magazine, is holding a symposium at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Hunt Hall A. Panelists will include James Askerman, chairman of the Fine Arts department Jan Rowan, editor of Progressive Architecture, and students from Yale, Harvard and M.I.T...
...Carl Rowan, 40, returns to journalism after serving as Ambassador to Finland and director of USIA. He plans to avoid strictly racial topics in his thrice-weekly column, which deals with everything from what's wrong with U.S. foreign policy to what's wrong with present-day pop tunes...
There are eight Negro federal judges, 100 city, county and state judges, four U.S. ambassadors. Thurgood Marshall, who recently resigned from the federal bench at the urging of President Johnson to become U.S. Solicitor General, represents the U.S. in the most important litigations before the Supreme Court. Carl Rowan, onetime Ambassador to Finland, only recently resigned as director of the USIA, where he was chiefly responsible for projecting the U.S. image abroad. Edward W. Brooke, attorney general of Massachusetts, is the highest elected Negro state officer in the U.S. Senator Leroy R. Johnson two years ago became Georgia...
...USIA director, Rowan left administrative details to others, but he upgraded the agency by persuading Congress to give Foreign Service status to many of its employees. And he got around quite a bit: he made 52 speeches during his 1½ year tenure. As a columnist, he plans to make extensive use of the contacts he made in Government...
...Rowan has also signed to write several articles a year for the Reader's Digest, and his combined income will be in the neighborhood of $60,000, double what he earned in Government...