Word: baldwin
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Biggest job belongs to Robert Baldwin, a Whittier College physics major, who looks after Owner Ryan's private network of 77 telephone stations, modeled after the internal exchange on a Navy ship. Combinations of 220 phone numbers will light up the pools, tennis courts, caves, fountains and trees; they will open and close doors, start up the waterfalls, greet a guest with a recorded message or serenade a caller with music to wait by. On a thickly wooded trail, the phone sounds with natural bird calls instead of the usual noisy ring...
...Speedy Scot: the $91,381.71 Realization Trot, a 1 1/16-mile stakes event for four-year-olds, at New York's Roosevelt Raceway. Driver Ralph Baldwin maneuvered the 1-to-5 favorite into first place at the half-mile pole, sat back and let him breeze home a length ahead, thus making Speedy Scot the first standardbred to retire the Founder's Plate, awarded to the horse that wins major stakes races at the Roosevelt at two, three and four years...
After dinner, Malraux gave a lofty address en art to the guests, who included James Baldwin, James Johnson Sweeney, Poet Saint-John Perse, Baron Alain de Rothschild, Mmes. Kandinsky and Léger, Ludmilla Tcherina, Yves Montand and Ella Fitzgerald. He called the museum "an important step in the history of the spirit" and concluded: "It was on a night like this that we heard the last blow of the hammer that completed the Parthenon. It was on a night like this that sounded the last blow of the hammer to Michelangelo's St. Peter's." -Yves Montand...
...mark on him if he comes up here. I got a mark on me if I go down there." Still some Negroes would live almost anywhere else just to get out of the ghetto. "I felt caged, like an animal," said Writer James Baldwin, who fled to Greenwich Village and then to Europe. "I felt if I didn't get out I would slowly strangle." Poet Claude McKay put it another way 40-odd years ago when he described the Negro as feeling...
Unbreakable Cycle. The cops and the cloudy issue of "police brutality" were last week's headline material, but Harlem's problems go much deeper. "The most dangerous creation of any society is that man who has nothing to lose," wrote James Baldwin in The Fire Next Time, and Harlem abounds with such men. They have neither jobs, nor homes worth living in, nor an education. The tragedy of Harlem is that yet another generation of such men is being bred because they cannot break out of the vicious cycle of the ghetto: poor schooling, leading...