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Harvard's five-man squad drew a bye in the first round of the team tournament and lost to Ontario's top amateurs, 4-1 in the second round. Terry Robinson fought off a late surge by Ontario's Don Fontana to win, 3-2, for the lone Crimson victory...
...been an As sistant Attorney General at the Justice Department in charge of public lands, recently worked with the President on the budget and matters concerning the Interior Department. - To be special assistant to the President: W. (for William) Marvin Watson, 40, assistant to the president of Dallas' Lone Star Steel Co., chairman of the Texas State Democratic Com mittee, and skilled political organizer who helped in the President's election campaign. As all-round administrative assistant, Watson will get $28,500 a year, will perform liaison work with Governors, and in effect will take over the official...
Fulbright, now 59, grew up in the small (pop. then about 5,000) town of Fayetteville in the Arkansas Ozarks, rode a horse three miles to school, milked the family's lone cow each day. His parents were wealthy. His stern, business-minded father Jay owned or held major interests in the town newspaper, a lumber company, a bank, a Coca-Cola bottling plant, a railroad, an ice company, and a hotel. Fulbright's mother led most of the town's civic activities, wrote a daily newspaper column on any topic that popped into her head...
...height of Joe McCarthy's power, Fulbright was one of the first Senators to protest his tactics. In 1954, he cast the lone vote against an appropriation for McCarthy's investigating Committee, blistered him in a speech at the University of Minnesota: "Thoughtful and informed people know that demagogues, who debauch the institutions of representative government, help Moscow." McCarthy thereafter referred to Fulbright as "Senator Halfbright...
...Texans have made life miserable for their elected officials by demanding tickets to all the packed inaugural events. "I'm at the end of my rope," said one Lone Star congressman, "but if I don't help these people, there are probably enough of them here to defeat me for re-election...