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Furthermore, the University is bending over backwards just as strenuously in its recruiting of teaching fellows. We can expect to see an increase of only .6 per cent in the number of women teaching fellows and of .3 per cent in the number of minority group members given these appointments...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Step Nowhere | 5/23/1973 | See Source »

Chicago's sidewalk critics have their own ideas about art. Picasso's 50-ft. sculpture in the Civic Center Plaza, some say, looks like a baboon. As for the 53-ft. work by Alexander Calder to be placed near by, it appears, from the model, to resemble a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 7, 1973 | 5/7/1973 | See Source »

He was jazz's most prolific improviser. Bird would blow 15 or 20 choruses on his alto saxophone without a repeat, then pause, breathe from his toes and blow ten more, bending and coloring the notes with a broad double-edged sound. Technically, his music was fiendishly complex; emotionally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bird Lives! | 4/16/1973 | See Source »

Around them swirls the carnival of the auto show. The 300 cars and 60 motorcycles are roped off from the crush of the public, the starflake paint mirroring the mustache and leather jacket of a hot-rodder bending close to inspect the chrome-plated carburetors, and his little brother in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Auto Shows: They Love Speed | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

After leaving SRI,* Geller volunteered to demonstrate his powers to TIME'S editors. Last month he appeared at the Time-Life Building in Manhattan and projected thoughts and images, claimed to read minds and caused a fork to bend-supposedly by using psychic energy. After Geller left, Professional Magician...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Magician And the Think Tank | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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