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...WILLIAM SCRANTON, 57. A leading member of the now quiescent Eastern G.O.P. establishment, Scranton served in Congress for two years, then was elected Governor of Pennsylvania for a four-year term. In 1964, he made a try for the G.O.P. presidential nomination. Since then, he has been regularly appointed to presidential commissions and special missions. He was one of a dozen statesmen who were recently called in by Kissinger to discuss the breakdown of negotiations in the Middle East...
Alarmed, Patty's group fled Manhattan and rented an isolated farmhouse near South Canaan, a hamlet in northwest Pennsylvania about 25 miles from Scranton. They had picked an ideal spot. There were already a number of established hippie communes on the region's abandoned farms, and no one was likely to notice another group arriving in a dusty van to set up housekeeping. Scott paid the total rent of $1,200 in cash...
...that led to the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing school segregation. He defended Freedom Riders and sit-in demonstrators in the 1960s and represented the N.A.A.C.P. in a case that found unconstitutional a Florida law prohibiting cohabitation between the races. At the request of former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, he led the legal fight to desegregate Girard College in 1965. Coleman served on the Eisenhower National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence, President Kennedy's Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the Warren Commission and the federal Price Commission...
...first photography course cost 15 dollars at the International Correspondence school in Scranton, Pa. But her associates would come to include such major photographers as Edward Weston, Ansel Adams and Dorothea Lange. Hilton Kramer of the New York Times says that "Like Paul Strand's, her work has a double claim on our attention. It belongs to history and at the same time it is part of the contemporary scene. On both counts, it is of exceptional interest." In the past year, Imogen Cunningham has had one-woman shows at both the Metropolitan Museum and New York's prestigious Witkin...
...blueprint that Ford is following is a 23-page report that was drawn up by four members of his transition team, all old and trusted friends: former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton, NATO Ambassador Donald Rumsfeld, Interior Secretary Rogers Morton and White House Counsellor John O. Marsh Jr. The four were careful to sound out the views of the Cabinet and a wide circle of Ford's advisers and confidants, including Melvin Laird, the former Congressman and Secretary of Defense; Bryce Harlow, an aide to both Presidents Dwight Eisenhower and Nixon; and Michigan's Robert Griffin, G.O.P. whip...