Word: severn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rattler surprised during a desert snooze. The time is about 1880 and the place is a sleazy little ghost town in New Mexico country. Three drifters-Collings (Fonda), Harris (Warren Gates) and Dan (Robert Pratt)-drift into it. Dan is gunned down by a mean, sneaky killer named McVey (Severn Darden). Collings and Harris push on to the farm of the wife Collings had deserted six years before. The wife, Hannah (Verna Bloom), takes on the pair as hired hands...
...went Saturday morning on the placid Severn River near Annapolis, as the pendulum of intercollegiate rowing swung towards an inspired Navy crew, which captured its first Adams Cup in ten years by beating Harvard by half a boat length and Penn by a full...
...largest margin of victory was produced by the varsity, who had opened up over 14 seconds of open water on the Middies by the finish. The varsity, covering the Severn River's wind-swept course in 6:08, notched their eighth consecutive Haines...
...question was real enough in the tumultuous spring of 1968 after the student rebellion had paralyzed the Morningside Heights campus. The situation called for a skilled negotiator, a man expert at the resolution of conflicts. Such a man emerged from the law-school faculty. Overnight, Professor Michael I. Severn, 36, found himself struggling to reunite and reform the badly shaken university. Last week the trustees rewarded Severn's largely successful efforts by naming him to succeed William C. Warren as dean of Columbia Law School...
Valid Process. In helping to heal Columbia after the 1968 crisis, Severn applied the soothing humor and tough pragmatism that have earned him wide respect as a labor arbitrator and mediator in disputes involving airline pilots, firemen, policemen, teachers and merchant mariners. As chairman of the faculty executive committee, he helped ease Columbia's overly remote president, Grayson Kirk, into retirement. Sovern was also chief salesman for the new University Senate, a student-faculty-alumni-administration body designed to democratize the process of decision making. "We were able to demonstrate what the radicals deny-that there is a wide...