Word: williams
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Turning to white voting officials for an explanation, the commission, chaired by Michigan State University President John A. Hannah, got meager cooperation. Of 14 officials subpoenaed for the hearing, six refused to appear. Others, like Macon County Probate Judge William Varner, 70, came, but were studiously circumloquacious. Varner did not know how many voters were on Macon County's rolls, had never seen a registration form. But he was certain there was no discrimination; white and Negro applicants filled out the same form. Snapped former Assistant Labor Secretary J. Ernest Wilkins, Negro member of the commission: "How would...
...drama, Staff Major Salim Alfakhri, Iraq's director of broadcasting, went on Iraqi TV to display sporting guns, pistols, knives and brass knuckles that, he said, were to have been used in the plot. Communist-line Baghdad newspapers quickly labeled U.S. Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree "a messenger of evil," and preposterously linked his prospective visit with the plot...
Precisely at this moment one of Washington's Middle East experts arrived in the area to collect answers to such fantastically tangled questions. Arab newspapers carried extravagant stories that Assistant Secretary of State William Rountree, 41, a Dulles protégé, was on his way to offer Nasser a big low-interest loan. Baghdad's newspaper al Zaman charged that Rountree "is coming here to weave conspiracies against...
...William T. H. Youngren, Teaching Fellow in General Education and head section man of Brower's course, confirmed the report that English 163 would also experiment with an essay instead of a final exam this year. No reasons for the change were given by Youngren or by Brower, who was unavailable for comment last night...
Other faculty members chosen for the trip include E. Bright Wilson Jr., Theodore William Richards Professor of Chemistry; Richard E. Pipes, associate professor of History; Albert B. Lord, professor of Slavic and of Comparative Literature; and Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee Professor of Economics...