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...half to abandon his "crappy job," in the words of one reporter. Hodges, whom Johnson does not consider energetic enough to cope with the problems of compliance with the Public Accommodations section of the Civil Rights Law and the Area Redevelopment Act, will reportedly be asked to resign. Buford Ellington, ex-Governor of Tennessee and a personal friend of Johnson, may become Secretary of Agriculture, while Frank Stanton, President of CBS, seems first in line for Commerce...
High-level argument about tektites and impactites has hung on for years, but at last week's New York meeting of the Geological Society of America, Drs. Robert L. Fleischer and P. Buford Price of General Electric Co. produced some of the first hard facts about them. Using a new dating method, the G.E. scientists proved that most tektites were formed either 34 million, 15 million or 700,000 years ago, and that known deposits of impactites have the same three ages...
...BUFORD C. TERRELL Altus, Okla...
...body of Confederate troops had deployed, the Swiss theologian smiled knowingly, "Yes, that was [Major General Henry] Heth's group." Told that a Lutheran seminary in which he was lunching had been used as a Union observation post, he nonchalantly rattled off the name of Major General John Buford as the post's commander. Moving south, Barth paused on a battlefield near Richmond. Va., raised a century-old Yankee musket to his shoulder, and proved himself the equal of an earlier Swiss marksman by scoring a bull's-eye on a white handkerchief 100 ft. away. Cried...
...remarkable speed, suits to force reapportionment have been filed or reinstituted in nearly a score of states. In Alabama a federal court has ordered the legislature to reapportion or have a court-ordered formula forced upon it. In Tennessee, where the stone that started the avalanche got rolling. Governor Buford Ellington announced last week that he was calling the legislature into special session to act on reapportionment. A suit challenging the apportionment of seats in the Georgia legislature is scheduled before a federal court in late...