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...personable, soft-spoken Negro named Wiley Rowe, 29, in the reverse collar and black habit of a priest, was unfrocked last week by Detroit police for passing a bad check in a jewelry store. A former theology student, he had changed his mission in life but not his garb ("The clerical outfit is impressive, and immediately people tend to trust you"). Having thus accumulated more than $35,000 in less than six months, he confided cheerfully that he had no qualms about posing as a priest. "You see," said Wiley, "I'm an agnostic...
...WILEY HITCHCOCK Ann Arbor, Mich...
...incident, said Arkansas' Fulbright, taking a slap at Dwight Eisenhower, showed a need for "much firmer direction of all governmental activities affecting foreign relations. If this is not to come from the White House, it should come from the State Department." Back came Wisconsin's Alexander Wiley, ranking Republican on Fulbright's committee, to defend the U-2 for a "record uniquely successful in history," and to characterize Fulbright's attack as "second only to Moscow" in its effort "to pin blame on U.S. policy...
...time civil rights partisans realized that this would gut the strongest part of the bill, Dixie Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee on a one-vote margin. (In the confusion, Colorado Democrat John Carroll voted with the Southerners to his subsequent chagrin, and Wisconsin Republican Alex Wiley could not be found to vote at all.) But on the Senate floor the Johnson-Dirksen team rallied their forces, smashed the amendment by a decisive 69-to-22 vote...
Republican Doerfer, a longtime Wisconsin politician and bureaucrat, and a protégé of Senator Alexander Wiley and ex-Governor Walter Kohler, went to Washington in 1953 as a member of the FCC, was elevated to the chairmanship...