Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unChristian" compared with officially stated policy. Case in point: Burrell Scott, 38, building contractor and leading lay official of the Negro Adventist Church of Oberlin, Ohio, journeyed to San Francisco to register a protest that his daughter Erica, 13, had been rejected for admittance to the Adventists' Mount Vernon Academy in Mount Vernon, Ohio. (The school was all white last year, will admit one Negro this fall.) Complained Scott testily: "Some of our ministers believe there's a separate white heaven and a colored heaven...
...John Howell of the service's Hammond Bay, Mich., lab, found a jar with its two larvae dead and its four little fish alive and frisky. The tricky compound that did the job best was 3-trifluormethyl-4-nitrophenol- more handily known as TFM. Developed by Government Biologist Vernon Applegate, TFM reaches into the mud and attacks lamprey larvae. Millions of them pop out of their burrows and writhe helplessly for hours before they...
...pair named Dingo and Count are being schooled to locate small missile fragments coated with paint mixed with squalene, a noisome extract of shark-liver oil. The dogs have already learned to ignore coyote and rabbit scents, and they can whiff a shark-flavored fragment half a mile downwind. Vernon Miller, chief of the range instrumentation division, thinks that the dog detectives will be over the research hump and busy at serious work within six months...
...director of the development advisory service will be Raymond Vernon, professor of International Trade and Investments in the Harvard Business School. Custav F. Papanek has been named deputy director...
...VERNON BIGLER Methodist Chaplain...