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Months of dispute between the president and board of trustees of Bowdoin College in Maine ended this week in the resignation of President Willard F. Enteman and two other college officials amid protest from faculty members who wanted Enteman to stay...
...Whether this was a prank or a more serious, racially-motivated incident, the cross-burning is an affront to all Williams students," senior Stephen Willard said yesterday...
...wait some years to forget a certain distaste for its fort and even its origins. But like most Texans, San Angeloans have an almost tactile relationship with the past-their own history at least. West Texans have not vanished into the anonymity of cities. When Joe Mertz and Willard Johnson, two of the biggest ranchers in San Angelo, get together for a great barbecue or a more elegant dinner at, say, the River Club, someone will probably tell an outsider how Johnson's grandfather spoke so eloquently about West Texas that he persuaded Mertz's grandfather...
...banks argue that instead of blocking foreign investment, Congress should remove the regulatory shackles from American moneymen. In particular, they want changes in laws that prohibit U.S. banks from operating in more than one state, so that they too could buy American financial institutions. Says Chase Manhattan President Willard Butcher: "I would at least have liked the chance to bid on Crocker Bank." Thousands of small American banks, though, are expected to continue lobbying hard against any legislation that would permit large domestic banks to enter their markets. They are no more eager to be swallowed by Chase than...
...DIED. Willard Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear...