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Four Harvard students and five other witnesses with first hand Mississippi voter registration experience gave sworn depositions at a special hearing in the State House today concerning the hardships suffered by Negroes attempting to vote in that state...
...marches were played, the prayers were made, and Soprano Leontyne Price sang America, the Beautiful. Humphrey, visibly nervous, was sworn in by House Speaker John McCormack, who now, after 14 months, was relieved of his interim role as presidential successor. At 12:03, Lyndon Johnson took his place before Chief Justice Earl Warren. Across the Potomac, cannon boomed a 21-gun salute. Lady Bird, gazing steadily into Lyndon's eyes, stood between the two men, holding the Johnson family Bible. After repeating the first phrase of his oath, Lyndon realized that he had forgotten to put one hand...
Actually, the crime may have been rooted in a blood feud between two warring tribes. In the hands of Burundi police was Gonsalve Muyenzi, 24, a Watutsi tribesman, a refugee from neighboring Rwanda, and thus a sworn enemy of Ngendandumwe, who happened to be a member of the Bahutu tribe. For centuries the Bahutu had served the towering Watutsi aristocrats (some measure 7 ft. or more) as cattle-tending serfs on the alpine slopes of the former Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Independence, in 1962, established a tribal equality of sorts, but both Bahutu and Watutsi quickly sought more than that...
With the Federal Government be coming increasingly active in every field from education to health, couldn't the states ease up at least a little on their own projects? Seemingly not. As more Governors were sworn in last week, the plans they submitted rivaled Washington's in ambition and variety. With one difference: while Lyndon is cutting taxes, most of the Governors have to raise them...
Alan R. Liebgett '66 was sworn in by Governor Peabody '42 Tuesday as one of the first fifteen volunteers in the Commonwealth Service Corps...