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...electrical engineer's son who worked his way through Harvard waiting on tables and selling newspapers, Ather ton earned a master's degree in history in 1947. When he joined the foreign service, he had an eye on a career in Eu rope. After a stint in West Germany, he was transferred to State's Near Eastern and South Asian bureau-NEA in Foggy Bottom shorthand-and given assignments in Damascus and the Syrian city of Aleppo in the turbulent 1950s. While based in Syria, Atherton defied an unwritten State Department rule by taking a vacation...
...Coeducational housing would obviate virtually all the problems that arise from the present system. It would provide for informal contacts between men and women; it would enable men and women to view each other more as people than dating objects; it would have numerous educational advantages. The experience at ather universities which have instituted coeducational housing, such as Stanford and Cornell, has been distinctly favorable...
...girl leader of the gang, played with edgy, neurotic menace by Broadway Newcomer Karen Black, has a "ather fixation and consequently a poisonous hostility toward her new stepmother. The girl eggs the gang into kidnaping her ten-year-old stepsister, and it is made to seem as if the Filthy Five will go as far as Leopold and Loeb. The rest of the play consists of sick witches while the stepmother is goaded Hit of her wits...
East-West Love. In the philosophical concept of Yang and Yin, the two elements grow and shrink each at the other's expense, but never wholly obliterate each ather, so that the end result is a kind of universal harmony. This is more or less what happens backstage at Flower Drum Song, according to testimony not only from pressagents-those untrustworthy upbeat philosophers-but according to anybody else connected with the show. And practically everybody gives the credit to the Oriental qualities of patience and politeness. Says Production Supervisor Jerry Whyte, a tough veteran of R. & H. shows since...
Oklahoma's new law making women ligible for jury duty brought some sharp comment from quid-rolling ex-Governor 'Alfalfa Bill" Murray. The 81-year-old ather of the present governor, Johnston Murray, and president of the State Con-titutional Convention in 1906, croaked lis objections: "It isn't right to lock women up with men in a jury room and make hem stay all night together. They won't quit till they make it legal for women to go into men's toilets. That's what they'll be after next...