Word: silver
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Among those who left was James Silver, chairman of the History department and author of Mississippi: The Closed Society, an account of Mississippi's well-oiled system for stifling dissent. Although Silver was not actually fired, Governor Ross Barnett and the Board of Trustees were openly hostile to him. After the departure of Silver and some other faculty liberals, Ole Miss Chancellor J.D. Williams commented, "It's best that they go--it is best for them, it is best...
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Among the students, the same sort of back sliding is clearly occurring. Last week, when historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 spoke at Ole Miss, he said he wished that his friend James Silver could have been there. After the speech, a number of the students asked who Silver was. As one amazed faculty member put it, "Most of them seemed to think he was some New York Jew." The central figure in the post-riot struggle against the closed society has largely been forgotten...
Snagged & Blinded. CaterineMilinaire wears a mirror-top dress; Charlotte Ford was last seen wearing silver-embroidered ivory lace with matching boots. Chicago Socialite Fay Peck owns at least a dozen pairs of Christmas-tree-ball earrings, plus three short glitter dresses, which, she says, "I haven't taken off since the time I bought them." To the San Francisco Opera Guild's annual Fol de Rol ball, Nancy Adler, the conductor's wife, came in a silver and white plaid dress, and Pia Lindstrom (now a local TV hostess) wore a silver brocade pants suit. Three...
ROLLS-ROYCE: Brake problems on about 80 Silver Shadows...