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...refused to modernize: as Iran's ex-Queen, she had imperiously insisted on top billing, and no star De Laurentlis approached would play second fiddle to an amateur. In private, Soraya's escort crisis was not so acute. She took off from Capri on a week-long yacht cruise with her real-life leading man, German Cinemactor Maximilian Schell...
...other actions of the week-long convention, the Lutherans: > Elected the first Negro, New York Lawyer William Ellis, ever to serve on the church's executive council, backed a civil rights statement defending civil disobedience "if and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or are demonstrably inadequate." >Grimly accepted the Supreme Court decisions banning school prayer and Bible reading, but warned that "they open an era in which Christianity is kept separate from the state in a way that would have been repugnant to the minds of our ancestors at the time the Constitution was written...
...Saturday, June 20, their week-long Oxford orientation course completed, Schwerner, Chaney, Goodman and five other young civil rights workers got into a CORE-owned blue station wagon to drive to Meridian. They had scheduled their trip so as to avoid driving through Deep Dixie after dark, always a perilous proposition for integration workers in such states as Alabama and Mississippi. As they passed through Birmingham, Ala., a car loaded with white teenagers pulled alongside, screamed "Nigger lover!" at a white girl student sitting next to Chaney in the station wagon...
William G. Saltonstall '28, who resigned as principal of Philips Exeter Academy to direct the Peace Corps in Nigeria, will highlight the current week-long recruitment drive at Harvard with a speech on Peace Corps activities at 8:15 p.m. tonight in Lowell Lecture Hall...
...speech will be the highlight of a week-long Peace Corps recruiting drive at Harvard. Five officials will talk with students about opportunities, and volunteers who have returned from duty overseas will discuss their experiences informal discussions with students...