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...reforming zeal, however, Richards has not completely turned away from politics as usual. She has rewarded several fat-cat campaign contributors with appointments -- among them Walter Umphrey to the parks and wildlife department and Barnard Rapoport to the University of Texas board of regents. She has sidestepped some prickly issues: refusing to help devise a court- ordered plan for equalizing school funding and to introduce a state income tax to ease Texas' $4.6 billion budget shortfall. "Her honeymoon is over," , warns Tom Craddick, leader of the Republican legislative caucus. "She needs to draw up a budget to show...
...long time, "Mr. 'Umphrey"?as Wallace refers to the Vice President ? received more attention than "Mr. Nixon." Lately, because of Nixon's success at the polls, he has turned his fire on the Republican, who is credited with a variety of sins, from deceitfulness to being part of the Administration that sent troops to Little Rock in 1957. Last week there was a new charge in the catalogue. The reason Nixon is so far ahead in the polls, Wallace averred in Albany, N.Y., is simple: he controls the pollsters and manipulates public opinion with the help...
Said Chancellor Umphrey Lee of Southern Methodist University in accepting Sunday's dedication: "You are contributing to the world about you when you worship ... A praying temple is a great addition to the well-being of the Commonwealth...
...facts "do not bear out the allegations made by Dr. Beaty," said the Brustees' statement, which followed a rear-unanimous vote of condemnation by the S.M.U. faculty. The President of the University, Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist minister, had also denounced Beaty's charges...
...facts "do not bear out the allegations made by Dr. Beaty," said the trustees' statement, which followed a near-unanimous vote of condemnation by the S.M.U. faculty. The President of the University, Umphrey Lee, an ordained Methodist minister, had also denounced Beaty's charges...