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Such a project could not have happened fifteen years ago," Roy Vernon, Dillon Professor of International Affairs, who is supervising part of the program, said Friday. "The language barrier is over, and the concept of empirical economic analysis and disinterested academic research has only recently become familiar in Japan," he added...
Michael Di Chiara Mount Vernon...
...watched TV and, with a nurse's assistance, even stood briefly. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was making a slow but steady recovery from gunshot wounds that felled him in the parking lot of the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Ind. But the police and FBI were making little progress last week in tracking down the would-be killer of the civil rights leader...
...howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great unifying forces...
...from big city ghetto to impoverished hamlet, he urged blacks to set aside their fears of white retaliation and register to vote. By 1968 the South had nearly 2 million new black voters, the number of black elected officials in the region had jumped almost eightfold, to 564, and Vernon Jordan was a nationally known civil rights leader...