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During the two weeks that he was at Fort Benning, Ga., on Army reserve duty as a lieutenant colonel last month, Lemuel Penn, 49, Negro director of vocational high schools for the District of Columbia school system, never set foot off the base. Reason: he did not want to be responsible-even inadvertently-for causing a racial incident. On the night of July 10, his training completed, Penn set out for home with two other Washington Negroes. They planned to drive straight on through, stopping only for food and fuel...
...finding among them such an appalling collection of lunatic prophets and murderous fanatics that one critic called her "a literary white witch," and she herself said, "I write from 9 to 12, and spend the rest of the day recuperating"; of lupus erythematosus (a rare tissue disease); in Milledgeville, Ga...
...Other Schools. The retraining of executives was pioneered by Harvard Graduate School of Business shortly after World War II. Currently, M.I.T., Northwestern, Stanford, Cornell, the University of North Carolina, Carnegie Tech and Emory are among more than 50 schools offering programs at such widely varied places as Sea Island, Ga., Zion National Park, Utah, Banff, Alta., Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y., and College Station, Texas. A similar program, though not college-sponsored, is provided by Colorado's Aspen Institute, which runs five two-week courses through the year, with the added lure of skiing and sauna bathing...
...averages prevailed, the racial composition of juries in Sumter County, Ga., would be three-fourths white and one-fourth Negro. The two races are represented in just about that proportion on the county's tax rolls, from which jury panels are drawn. But rarely in modern times has a Negro served on a jury in Sumter County, where even the tax rolls are segregated: the names of white and Negro taxpayers are separately registered. By order of the Georgia Court of Appeals, the law of averages now prevails along with the law of Georgia in the selection of Sumter...
Penn. 49. director of vocational high schools in Washington, D.C., was killed when two shotgun blasts, fired from a passing car, ripped into the car he was driving while returning to Washington from Army Reserve duty at Fort Benning, Ga...