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...James W. Wiley, 2nd, '65 and three other Negro SNCC workers were charged with trespassing after warning when they refused to leave a segregated restaurant after the manager had requested them to do so. Wiley was also charged with resisting arrest...
Nothing is definite yet, but James W. Wiley '65, who is now on leave of absence, is doing research for the Office on the supply of experienced computer programmers at Harvard and the demand for them in the Boston area. Two dozen programmers have already submitted resumes...
There are hundreds of students at Harvard, Wiley said, who have learned to program in Engineering Sciences 10 or 110, in the Student Employment Office seminar on FORTRAN programming, or elsewhere...
...Micajah and Wiley Harpe killed for the fun of it; they rarely made a profit. Followed by a retinue of three prostitutes and some offspring of indeterminate parentage, they roamed Tennessee and Kentucky murdering anybody who seemed defenseless: old peddlers, itinerant fiddlers, children, slaves. Hospitality especially infuriated them. When a woman gave them lodging for a night, they tomahawked a fellow lodger because he was snoring too loudly. They slit the throat of the woman's baby while pretending to rock it; finally, they knifed the woman...
Lumbering frontier justice eventually caught up with the Harpes. Wiley was hanged and Micajah was shot. While Micajah was dying, a man whose family had been wiped out by the Harpes slowly cut off his head with a knife. "You're a God-damned rough butcher," gurgled Micajah, "but cut on and be damned...