Word: vernon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...VERNON L. WHARTON JR. Lafayette...
...skill as a persuasive negotiator and as a goad to whites who wield economic power. Last week the National Urban League announced the selection of a successor to Young who may well prove to be the bridge between black leaders of the past and black demands of the future. Vernon E. Jordan Jr., a black lawyer whose career has spanned the history of the modern civil rights movement, will become executive director of the Urban League next January...
Heng Soon Tan of Kirkalnd House and Memphis, Tennessee; Andrew A. Vernon of 20 Tierney Street and Atlanta, Georgia; William G. Viscusi of Leverett House and Louisville, Kentucky; Marc S. Visner of Quincy House and West Hartford, Connecticut; Michael A. Westerman of Kirkland House and New York City...
Hearings should be requested so that basic questions about the Pilgrim nuclear power plant's safety and emission controls might be asked and satisfactory fly answered before the station be allowed to operate. The key safety device presently missing at the Yankee power station in Vernon. Vermont, is, I am assured by a call to the Boston Edison Company, present in the Plymouth reactor. This does not mean, however, that all cause for concern ceases. A common characteristic of the two plants, for example, is that they are both boiling water reactors. This type of reactor (pressurized water reactors...
...much less himself. More often he sounds like a future politician: he may return to Chicago and use legal services to build a "base" for "rendering service to the community." As he sees it, "I've just grown older. I realize that I have no monopoly on knowledge. Me, Vernon Ford?I can't change the world. I don't know what this country has in store for me, or for black people. But insofar as a problem is recognized, I'm going to do everything in my power to help solve it. That's the pragmatic approach...