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...still dogged Humphrey. He lost the primary in his neighboring state of Wisconsin to Kennedy, was trounced again in West Virginia. In a sorrowful scene in Charleston, Humphrey stepped before television cameras to announce that "I am no longer a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination." Folk Singer Jimmy Wofford twanged at his guitar, struck up a final woebegone chorus of "Vote for Hubert Humphrey, he's your man and mine . . ." Once more, tears came to Humphrey's eyes. Next morning the Senator emerged from the Ruffner Hotel to take his leave of West Virginia. On his campaign...
Only a few days before, McDowell had told a campus newspaper reporter that he felt things were going pretty well. "I'm not walking around in fear of constant attack," he had said. Yet he confided in Ole Miss Episcopal Chaplain Wofford Smith that he had bought the pistol because he was "scared." The few U.S. marshals who had been living on the campus to protect both Negroes had left after Meredith's graduation in Au gust. Recalled Smith: "McDowell said he had applied for a permit to carry his pistol. I told him this was the perfect...
...remarkable change. Peace Corps teachers constitute half the faculty of every high school outside Addis Ababa. Since they bolstered Ethiopia's teaching force, in mid-1962, high school enrollment has nearly doubled-the greatest increase since the Ethiopian school system was started in 1908. "This," says Harris Wofford, corps representative for Ethiopia, "is what the Peace Corps was born for-to enable a country that really wants to move to move faster than it otherwise could...
...prize was awarded to an undergraduate. A second prize of $300 was given to John G. Campbell, Jr. '57. Two third prizes of $100 were awarded to Eric Rothstein '57 and to Robert H. H. Wilbur '57. Honorable mention was given to Byron Stookey, Jr. '57 and John G. Wofford...
...must all follow their example, and so John G. Wofford said last night, "Stand firmly upon our ideals, as we slaughter the unkempt creatures...