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...Whitney Young Jr.,* LL.D., executive director of the National Urban League...
Many of these new "horror" artists have been well received in gallery exhibitions during the past year or so. Manhattan's Whitney Museum is planning to put together an exhibition of the work of a number of them in the autumn, although Associate Curator Robert Doty does not regard the show as a trend setter. "There's been a continuous stream of this kind of expressionistic art from the Romanesque period on ward," says he. "Look at Goya. Look at Bosch." For that matter, look at Chicago's Ivan Albright, California's Edward Kienholz...
...Whitney Young, director of the Urban League and winner of a Harvard honorary degree, castigated an audience of Harvard students for their apathy about racial problems. Young said that the sparse attendance at his lecture showed Harvard's general lack of interest in civil rights...
...System, the head of the Agency for International Development, the secretary-general of NATO, and three presidents of Latin American nations. During the same period, no degrees were granted to Negroes. (In 1967, Harvard did grant a degree to the Negro President of Morehouse College and in 1968 honored Whitney Young...
...ordinary press junket. The 15 newsmen paid their own way on a chartered Boeing 737, and each day for a week they visited a different big-city black ghetto, from Cleveland to Watts. Organized by Whitney Young, executive director of the Urban League, the tour included Washington Post Editorial Writer Ben Gilbert, Columnists William F. Buckley Jr. and Joseph Kraft, Newsweek Editor Osborne Elliott, John Herbers of the New York Times, and TIME Washington Correspondent Jess Cook. Cook's report...