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...segregation," says Adele Allen, Brooklyn-born black president of student government at Wellesley. "When I socialize, I prefer to hear James Brown, not Joan Baez, and when I'm at a party, I prefer to have black men around. This is not segregation; it's a matter of personal taste...
...Brooklyn-born Puerto Rican agrees: "There's more space here, space where people can do things for themselves with less pressure, experiment with things. I have found Canada to be a very good school-a place for learning on all levels." Comments Robert Gardner, 50, the coordinator of the Canadian Council of Churches' ministry to U.S. draft-age immigrants in Canada: "Everything written and broadcast in the U.S. has been done so from the perspective that dodgers are poor, sad, lonely exiles. This is nonsense. Certainly the decision and act may have tragic implications. But many dodgers have...
...Brooklyn-born Kriss went to Harvard, where he majored in European history, and Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. He was a foreign correspondent for the I.N.S. and U.P.I, wire services in Tokyo and served as a telegraph editor for the New York Daily News before joining TIME in 1961. He has written or edited almost every section of the magazine. As a writer in The Nation section he was responsible for some 40 cover stories, and he has edited nearly 30 more as chief of TIME'S World section since mid-1969. Writers for the Review should...
Divorced. Vic Damone, 43, Brooklyn-born supper-club crooner; and Judy Rawlins, 35, onetime television actress; after seven years of marriage, three children (he has a fourth child by Screen Star Pier Angeli); in Hollywood. Though he revealed in court that he is nearly broke and is considering bankruptcy. Damone agreed to support payments of $2,100 per month...
Behind Columbia's supersonic boom is its president, Clive Davis, 38, a Brooklyn-born Harvard law grad who rose through the corporate law department and has no musical background. While his personal taste runs to the old heartthrobs like Johnny Mathis, Davis has a knack for spotting trends and picking out what will sell in almost any field of music. Since taking over in 1965, he has radically changed Columbia's image. He switched the emphasis from Broadway show albums and the "easy-listening" music of Andre Kostelanetz and Mitch Miller to contemporary rock. Columbia already...