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CLARENCE M. MITCHELL JR. (continued) Brown, considered an arch-conservative on most matters, had been scouted extensively by Mitchell in advance of the showdown, contributing to his optimism over the outcome. In 1965, many liberals felt Congress should "take a breather" and not consider more civil rights bills. Not Clarence Mitchell, who said: economic matters, sometimes you'll find there arc Republicans who arc liberal on civil rights." Mitchell had in mind Rep.

Clarence Brown (R-Ohio), the ranking gop member of the House Rules Committee, who eventually provided a key vote in moving the 1964 civil rights bill toward final passage. Kennedy's presidency, no civil rights legislation was proposed. Kennedy and his brother, Robert, said the slim Democratic margins in both Senate and House made passage of further laws unlikely. Clarence Mitchell filed a dissenting opinion, saying: "What they didn't realize was that although Republicans were conservative on Everybody talks about the weafflisr.Thcs IBM man does soimiefflDCiiDg atom it volved with the government's new agency for the study of pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency. He analyzes weather and pollution problems Applies computer techniques to finding solutions.

Writes proposals to government agencies And contributes to new research in meteorology. Not many men can do the job Nathaniel Woodrick does. We're glad he does it at IBM. IDAtl A few months later he was in the U.S. Air Force, as an Air Weather Officer.

After 3Vz years in the service, he returned to IBM as an Associate Physicist specializing in infrared sensing, arid the application of computer techniques to weather forecasting. Today; Nathaniel Woodrick is an IBM Advisory Marketing Representative to the Department of Commerce, and the Department of the Interior. He also is deeply in NatrUTielWoclrick works with government agencies in applying computer techniques to bring about more precise weather forecasting. Weather affects the lives and fortunes of many people. Farmers, for example.

And builders. The crews of ships at sea Astronauts. Resort owners. In 1956, Mr. Woodrick came to IBM as a junior physicist interested in meteorology.

"I guess many of us felt that when the tide's going your way, it's no time to start resting on the beach." The voting rights act, which has since put millions of Negroes on the voting rolls in the South, was the result of such perseverance. By 1968, the question was whether to seek a bill to halt discrimination in the sale or rental of homes and apartments. It was an issue with high political risk for President Johnson, many observers believed at the time. On the wall of Mitchell's office not far from the Capitol, there is a pic-' ture of him with Mr. Johnson and the mongrel puppy known as Yuki.

"It was at that meeting," says Mitchell, pointing to the photograph, "that we decided to go forward with the fair housing bill." The Rules Committee of the House was again the bottleneck. Clarence Brown was dead. But Mitchell found another Republican to deliver a key vote Rep. John Anderson of Illinois and the bill came to the floor and won approval by a narrow margin. It zipped through the Senate with the aid of the late Sen.

Everett M. Dirksen, also of Illinois, who said fair housing was an idea "whose time has come" despite his earlier opposition. When the votes were approaching on the floor of Congress, Mitchell often would look to his Bible for comfort. Raised as an Episcopalian, he has switched to the Methodist church and takes an active layman's role. One of his favorite passages is II Kings which tells the story of a servant who expresses concern to his master, Elisha the prophet, about being outnumbered in battle.

Elisha replies: "Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them." The story says the Lord opened the eyes of the servant so he could see that "the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." "I like to think that the Power that runs this world and the universe is really greater and more potent than anyone who gets elected to office or is in control of anything," Mitchell says. "If that Power gets into the picture it's bound to come out the right way." Mitchell dislikes noisy business lunches. As a result, he rarely eats lunch at all. He starts his day in Baltimore early, rising about 6 o'clock each workday morning to make the 40-mile trip to his Washington office. He travels in a 1967 Buick which now has 140,000 miles on the speedometer.

The driving time is used to think over plans for the day, while (Please turn It page 16) Hv V- i UF tJLi SA Tuesday Magazine July, 1971.