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...have perfect records." Nor do banks relish the thought of having federal examiners constantly looking over their shoulder. "When you're sitting here with regulators who are coming down and telling you to downgrade everything that isn't lily white, you have a problem," says Don McWhorter, president of Ohio- based Banc...
...concern for waterlogged residents: a flotilla of water moccasins in the flood tides. "Snakes are trying to find a dry piece of ground, just like everyone else," said Greg McWhorter of Alabama's emergency-management agency. "They'll settle up in the top part of your closet. We're warning people to be on the alert...
...long-simmering problems between the races, both on campus and off. Acknowledges Susan Hobbs, a white Williams senior: "There has been apprehension about relations between minorities and whites." Another white Williams student wonders why "each group seems to stick together, without reaching out to each other." Says Darrell McWhorter, a black senior who is president of the Williams student council: "There is really nothing different here from the world outside. These incidents have just shown that Williams does not exist in a vacuum." Says Harvard's Jackson: "Until we sit down and talk to each other about what...
Gone was the easy, Tom and Huck familiarity. At least in public, William Hamilton McWhorter Jordan, 34, would never again be plain old Ham, not even to Press Secretary Jody Powell, the only other man in the White House who has served so long and so closely with Jimmy Carter. Explaining Carter's wishes last week, Powell announced: "The President told the White House staff they should no longer consider Mr. Jordan as their peer and they should consider his directives as the President...
Cynics, of course, would say that Nixon's aim was to win black support in just such a manner. The chances are that they would be wrong in this case. The idea for the party was suggested by Nixon's old New York associate Charles McWhorter, a jazz buff, and Nixon, no jazz fan but the first piano-playing President since Harry Truman, enthusiastically endorsed it. Ellington did not participate in anyone's campaign and, in fact, had not even met Nixon until the day of the party. The traditional political types were not invited...