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...George Stinson is downbound. Known unaffectionately as "Gorgeous George," the Stinson is a recently built 1,000-ft.-long Goliath of the lakes. Gorgeous she isn't; unmanageable she is. Says a company skipper who has been on the lakes since 1936: "Those thousand footers don't belong up here." Hall further defines the problem. "They need a lot of power to avoid getting stuck. But if they come barreling around the turns full bore, they wind up in the trees...
...with "Jews for Jesus," a group of Christian Jews based in New York. The administration cancelled the celebration in response to complaints from MIT Hillel, a Jewish group, and students and faculty who criticized "Jews for Jesus," Giffone said. Hillel called the group a "proselytising organization" which does not belong at MIT, Rabbi Dan Shevitz, director of MIT Hillel, said Friday...
...Union, which has done little to promote the troubles but tries to capitalize on any chance to lessen U.S. influence. Said Kremlinologist Dimitri Simes: "I don't believe the Soviet Union has any grand design in this arc of instability, any master plan, any timetable. All those things belong to the imagination of some editorial writers and intelligence analysts." But Simes thinks that the Soviets are so eager to damage the U.S. that they will even act against some of their own national interests...
Three of opera's "great progressivists," Igor Stravinsky once declared, were Gluck, Wagner-and the Viennese modernist Alban Berg. Stravinsky was not being merely provocative. As the years go by, Berg's claim to belong in such illustrious company looks more and more secure. It rests on two complex, powerful works, Wozzeck and Lulu, that in effect brought opera into the 20th century. Lulu, in particular, packed traditional operatic emotion and drama into the most advanced of forms, the twelve-tone system devised by Berg's teacher, Arnold Schoenberg...
Juvenile justice in this country is one of those subjects that everyone's got an opinion on, but few have hard facts. When you see unruly and disobedient teenagers nightly terrorize elderly women in the South Bronx on your television set, you naturally feel that they all belong behind bars, with the keys thrown away. Yet almost half of the girls (and an almost as large percentage of the boys) currently in child detention facilities are serving time for crimes no more serious than truancy or running away from home. The bureaucrats in Washington call such juveniles "status offenders...