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Alumnae came all the way from Mercer Island, Wash., and La Jolla, Cal., to attend the sixth biennial Radcliffe College Alumnae Council. Over 100 of the remaining delegates were from Massachusetts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 153 Register, Representing 59 Classes | 11/19/1964 | See Source »

...techniques, so many people are hurling themselves out of airplanes for the fun of it that Geronimo has gone back to the Indians, and the birds are taking collision insurance. Last week at Leutkirch, West Germany, 175 of the best jumpers from 31 countries turned up for the seventh biennial world parachuting champion ships. When they had finished leaping into the wild blue 2,104 times, the U.S. team wound up with three of the four titles, exactly duplicating their 1962 victory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Parachuting: Dive for the Bull's-Eye | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...bold muralist whose works form walls in churches, hospitals and universities across Spain, even an 8,611-sq.-ft. bulwark in an electrical plant in Grandas de Salime. His murals are close to "official" art, full of public consciousness, but when he won first prize at the 1963 Paris biennial, it was awarded for his feverish blend of abstraction and figuration. Vaquero Turcios fears gimmickry in the Spanish preoccupation with paint as material rather than illusion. But he himself uses a latex and plastic mixture on pressed wood, or even plaster, as in the sails of his Homage to Rodrigo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Styles: Iberian Resurgence | 8/28/1964 | See Source »

...starting line, at the windward mark, and again at the leeward mark. Then, perhaps, the fledgling sailor may be considered qualified to crew for the likes of Corny Shields, in International One-Designs, or America's Cup 12-meters, or in ocean-going yachts in the biennial Bermuda races...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Races Are for Winning | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

Guerrilla Warfare. Those lawyers who condone civil disobedience do so on very narrow grounds. Civil disobedience is "just" only when all legal redress has been closed-a position taken last week by the Lutheran Church in America at its biennial convention in Pittsburgh. "If and when the means of legal recourse have been exhausted or have been demonstrably inadequate," resolved the church, "Christians may then choose to serve the cause of racial justice by disobeying a law that clearly involves the violation of their obligations as Christians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Constitutional Law: How to Change Laws You Don't Like | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

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