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Council approval of a plan for sports reform does not mean, however, that most colleges and universities will abandon spring practice this year. Hugh C. Willett president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, said last night, "The action taken by the American Council on Education will have no immediate effect on the policies of the NCAA...
Whether the other conferences and groups in the NCAA will adopt the ACE's suggestions on sports is a difficult question, but Willett hinted last night that eventually they will. He emphasized that the schools in the NCAA also belong to the ACE and that the NCAA "is now, as always, completely responsive to the will of its members, as expressed by their presidents or controlling boards...
...N.C.A.A. will propose legislation to give the committee regulatory powers. "We think we have a potent means of enforcement brewing," Hugh C. Willett, N.C.A.A. president, stated. The new Sanity Code will consist mostly of general principles, and member institutions and conferences will make their own detailed rules and regulations...
...days later, the ax fell on one of the RFC men most susceptible to Merl Young's influential ways. William E. Willett, ousted as an RFC director last February, had slipped back on to the Government payroll as an $11,800-a-year "specialist" for Under Secretary of the Navy Francis P. Whitehair. When news of Willett's new job leaked out last week (TIME, Dec. 24), Defense Secretary Robert Lovett (who hadn't been told that Willett was drawing a Government check again) demanded his resignation forthwith...
...expanding Navy installations. Last week he named a special assistant to take care of this problem, which, the Pentagon professionals insisted, is "a topflight executive job." The appointee, classed as a "manpower" expert, was none other than Whitehair's-and Donald Dawson's-good friend William Willett, out of a job ever since the Senate kicked...