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Ellison, who won the 1953 National Book Award for fiction for his novel, "Invisible Man," spoke along with three other prominent black American scholars in a three-and-a-half-hour symposium held in tribute to Alain L. Locke '08, one of the University's first black graduates...
...Locke Symposium...
...institution significantly named the Donner Pass College for Women, the author pits a pair of middle-aged Eastern Jewish intellectual males against a covey of young Western Baptist extroverted females. To this year's Donner Pass Symposium for Distinguished Visitors come an obnoxious poet, Fox, and a weary, rueful professor, Isaiah Greene. Greene is at first charmed despite himself by the earnest and buxom simple-mindedness of the girls and their quaint collegiate rituals. What troubles him is the crassness of his odious colleague, the loudmouthed, girl-chasing...
...award ceremony highlighted a three-day scientific symposium honoring Whipple on his retirement as director of the Smithsonian Observatory. Some 150 astrophysicists from around the country gathered here to discuss "The Dusty Universe." Topics concerned problems in astronomy common to the theories of cosmic condensation and the evolution of the universe...
...resistance set off a frantic last-minute effort to find Ervin and Baker and summon them to the White House. Baker was located at a symposium in Chicago, Ervin at an airport in New Orleans. Both flew immediately to Washington. They were ushered into the Oval Office and urged by Nixon, Haig and Wright to accept the proposal...