Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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McDonald said blacks set up a short-lived roadblock on Mount Vernon Street yesterday to bar white entrance to the project but a small detachment of policemen cleared the area...
Govan denied that any roadblocks were ever set up to keep whites out of the area. "Whites have come to work here at the People's Center, as the BHA [Boston Housing Authority] Office and at the Uniform Factory down the street [Mt. Vernon] the whole time, even when the cops said they were kept out of the area," she said...
...former Presidents and other federal officials own the records they generated during their tours of public service? The answer is yes if tradition is the sole arbiter. Ever since George Washington carted home to Mount Vernon trunkloads of presidential papers, his successors and their executors have tightly controlled White House documents. The controversial agreement between representatives of Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon, giving Nixon shared control over his material and allowing him to destroy the records after five years, reaffirms past practice...
...field of action for people in other fields. Such, at any rate, was the logic behind the changes made in June. The revamped HIID, in fact, seems to have been something of a pet idea of President Bok, who started the policy review that spawned it by appointing Raymond Vernon, Johnson Professor of International Business Management at the Business School, to look into ways in which the University's multiplicity of projects abroad in different disciplines could be consolidated into a co-ordinated structure...
...Vernon describes Bok as "both intellectually and even emotionally involved in this." And Bok himself has expressed the belief that declining interest in development problems (except in oil-rich nations) gives the University some obligation to take an initiative in this area...