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...Role of Servant. Brownell's present civil rights program is the result of three years' intensive study (TIME. May 6). Such measures as anti-poll-tax legislation and a fair employment practices commission were considered and cast aside as too harsh or unworkable. The program, as finally accepted and recommended by Brownell, seeks primarily to provide tools for enforcing civil rights statutes already on the books. It is especially aimed at securing for Negroes their right to vote, which both Brownell and the program's Southern enemies recognize as the heart of the whole problem of discrimination...
...publicity brought floods of replies. One said that he had been "beguiled to East Cambridge and done in," while another had him, his head covered with blood, being driven "at breakneck speed" across Craigie's bridge to Cambridge. One of the more plausible reports was that of a servant in Parkman's household, who recalled that the Doctor had had a caller earlier on Friday, reminding him of a 1:30 p.m. appointment on that day, but the caller was unidentified...
Undermined Spirit. From Cairo Herbert Norman cabled Pearson thanking him for his support. He began to spend long hours in his study writing: then he would summon his Nubian servant, Mohammed Daoud. and ask him to burn the writings in the ambassador's presence. In the pocket of his suit when he died, he left two scrawled notes. One said: "I have no option. I must kill myself because I live without hope." Another, to his wife, said: "I kiss your feet and beg you to forgive me for what I am doing...
...Vien himself put it to more practical uses, including piracy, highway robbery, kidnaping, smuggling, pandering and an elaborate system of shakedown rackets. By the early 1950s, however, his chest adorned with France's own Legion of Honor for other services rendered, General Le Van Vien was a respectable servant of empire with a household of wives and concubines and a zoo full of wild beasts on a spacious estate overlooking the sea at Cap Saint-Jacques...
...both before and after his service as Aide-de-Camp to General MacArthur, including the Distinguished Service Medal and the Legion of Merit. These things, plus the fact that he has attained great success and recognition as a lawyer, as a businessman, as a military leader, as a public servant and as a scholar, eminently qualify Col. Laurence E. Bunker for the honor which his classmates and fellow alumni have bestowed upon him. Kenneth E. Thompson...