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...Foundation fears for the future support of women's athletics. Last February the Supreme Court ruled that Title IX applies only to programs receiving federal funds, not to institutions. A bill to overturn the decision is in the Senate. One problem, explains U.S. Olympic Swim Team Man ager Bev Montrella, is "we look at female gold-medal winners with the same esteem as men. But in colleges, men's athletics is still where...
Louis Armstrong is Bev'ly Sills...
Working on the case, the FBI bugged Marcello's offices and set up a dummy insurance company in Bev erly Hills, Calif. Called Fidelity Financial Consul tants, the "firm" was run by Joseph Hauser, a convicted insurance swindler who was cooperating with the FBI in hopes of gaining early pa role. Hauser was introduced to Marcello by a Washington lobbyist named I. Irving Davidson; the Mafia don allegedly agreed to try to bribe Louisiana officials to obtain insurance contracts for Fidelity and then split the commissions with Hauser and Davidson...
...year history. Last January, when Sills, 49, announced that she would end her singing career in 1980, she promised that she would stay on at City Opera?as co-director with Julius Rudel, 57, her mentor and director of the company for 21 years. Last week "Good Queen Bev," as Rudel has called her since her smashing performances in Donizetti's royal trilogy (Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena), took on the biggest and riskiest role of her career. Next July she will become the company's sole director: Rudel has decided to devote all his energies to conducting...
...Hampshire College in western Massachusetts, the faculty name plates on office doors read like an academic version of All in the Family. In the science building alone, for example, one door is labeled BEV AND FRED HARTLINE, GEOPHYSICS, another AL AND ANN WOODHULL, BIOLOGY, and, down the hall, KURTISS AND COURTNEY GORDON, ASTRONOMY...