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...Vernon Struck must have loved to run against Princeton. He probably could have run against the Tigers all day long. In fact, during Harvard's 34-6 shellacking of the Tigers in 1937, Struck did just that, rushing 33 times for 233 yards and three touchdowns. The two totals stood as Harvard records for 44 years. And now one has fallen...
...Jeans is the inspiration of Vernon and Charleen Dickman, who own nine gas stations in California. Says Vernon: "I was paying $45 for those big-name designer jeans. But when I looked into it, I found that I could buy and sell them at a lower price." Business has been so good at Gas-N-Jeans that the Dickmans are thinking of adding clothing boutiques to several more of their gas stations. They are also pondering what other trendy products they can peddle. One possibility: jogging shoes...
...advanced education, such colleges produced most of the black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University, where ex-National Urban League President Vernon Jordan got his law degree. Historian W.E.B. Du Bois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville...
...than 250,000 union members, civil rights activists, environmentalists and others enraged by Ronald Reagan's policies. While the President relaxed at Camp David, the crowd marched down Constitution Avenue to the Capitol and then cheered when speaker after speaker denounced the Administration. As National Urban League President Vernon Jordan proclaimed: "We won't stand still when our programs are gutted, our jobs taken away and our dreams deferred...
...successive days last week, the civil rights movement lost, in different ways, two of its most prominent leaders. Roy Wilkins, who had served for 22 years as executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People before retiring in 1977, died at 80. Then Vernon Jordan, 46, president of the National Urban League for the past ten years, announced at a New York news conference that he was resigning to join the Dallas-based law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld...