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...BLACK SOLDIER who was in the trench next to Michael when he was killed wrote to the Mullens and gave them insight into their son's character. "I was the only Black in our squad," Private Willard Polk from Detroit wrote, "and I can honestly say I heard the word Nigger enough to last me a lifetime. You see, I could talk with Michael, he didn't care if you was Black or White. He was a good guy and we both had a great deal of respect for each other...
...divided among Houston's Rice University and the Universities of Texas, Nevada and California. Eight different groups of beneficiaries got one-sixteenth shares (about $150 million each): the Mormon church; William Lummis, a cousin in Houston; and a man named Melvin Dummar, who leases a gas station in Willard, Utah. Hughes' former wives (Ella Rice and Jean Peters) were to divide a one-sixteenth share. Aside from bequests to the Boy Scouts, an orphans' home and a school scholarship fund, Hughes' inner circle of aides stood to collect the rest of the estate, some $450 million...
...experts wondered about what they considered the schizophrenic defense strategy of F. Lee Bailey. Complained Psychiatrist Willard Gaylin, president of the Society, Ethics and Life Sciences Institute at Hastings-on-Hud-spn, N.Y.: "There was confusion between brainwashing and coercion. Coercion is when a person does something against his will because he's terrified. Brainwashing is when a person tries to become and to will what somebody else is and wants. It was not clear what the defense wanted to say." Northwestern Law Professor Jon Waltz agreed. "On the one hand, Patty is supposed to be brainwashed," he said...
...Easing of the transition between school and work-which is now much rougher in the U.S. than it is in many other industrial countries. Former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, for example, calls for setting up local community-education-work councils. These help students with career planning-and help schools train them for jobs that actually will be there...
Screenplay by WILLARD HUYCK and GLORIA KATZ