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...University of Texas regents were going through the motions of a public meeting last month, just one day after Chancellor Charles ("Mickey") LeMaistre had fired Stephen Spurr as president of the Austin campus. Student Body Vice President Bill Parrish rose to ask a question: Why was Spurr dismissed? For long seconds the regents stared down at their papers in total silence. "Isn't anybody going to respond?" asked the student...
Last week LeMaistre was under pressure from Governor Dolph Brisco to justify Spurr's firing-the latest in a series of power plays at a highly political university. LeMaistre had, in fact, already told Spurr why he was dismissed. But the information was delivered during a private meeting and never put in writing. With good reason. The real charges according to Spurr: he had cut back on the lavish cocktail parties the university threw for wealthy contributors before football games; he had not cracked down on the student paper, The Daily Texan, which treats the regents with a notable...
...figures all season, fashioned a 75 on the windy Southboro course to beat Dave Munger 4 and 3. John Parsons halved with Os Edwards in the second match. Pete Malkin lost 1 down to Arch Renshaw, Jim Jones crushed Sol Bundy 6 and 5. John Walsh topped Al Spurr 6 and 4, and Dave Strassier wiped out Ed Sterling...
Folk Songs (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; Phyllis Spurr, piano; London FFRR, 6 sides). Includes the Northumbrian classics, Blow the Wind Southerly, The Keel Row, the Elizabethan Have You Seen but a White Lily Grow? and Willow, Willow, all sung with incomparable beauty and style. Recording: excellent...
Stephen H. Spurr, Alstead, N.H., Instructor in Forestry...