Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barely recognize. Almost every U.S. campus is changing drastically these days. As usual, though, Harvard seems to be outdoing the rest-or trying awfully hard. The nation's oldest university has gone hip, and no one is yet sure where the limits may lie. Junior Bob Telson from Brooklyn barely exaggerates when he says: "Today the only thing you could possibly be booted for is something you'd get two years for in the outside world...
From the day he was born in Brooklyn Heights, N.Y., there was little doubt that Paul would be involved in new and unfamiliar art. His father, Poet Louis Zukofsky, saw to that. Paul started on the violin at age four. After a year of study with Ivan Galamian (TIME, Dec. 6), Paul made his professional debut at eight with the New Haven Symphony. Meanwhile, his parents had stopped sending their prodigy to school after the first grade, partly because they felt they could do a better job tutoring him themselves. They did. At 13, Paul won a New York City...
Farmer opposed Nixon when he ran for Congress during the last election in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant district. A registered Liberal, he ran on the Republican ticket but supported Hubert Humphrey. The Negro district elected Democrat Shirley Chisholm, making her the first Negro Congresswoman. In recent weeks, Farmer has been increasingly impressed by Nixon ("He means to bring the nation together...
...study made of 600 people in Florida found that the people who woke up most happily were the ones accustomed to regular sleeping habits. Hypnotists can occasionally snap morning drowsers out of their grogginess by implanting suggestions during a trance. It may be, says Psychophysiologist Harvey D. Cohen of Brooklyn's Downstate Medical Center, that researchers will one day show people how to synchronize their sleep and work cycles...
Died. Thelma Ritter, 63, Brooklyn-born character actress; of a heart attack; in Jamaica, N.Y. Her voice was purest Greenpoint gravel and her visage was forever screwed into the city dweller's skeptical query: "Who ya' tryin' to kid, buster?" She began her career, as she once put it, on the road as "an obnoxious child actress-the poor man's Cornelia. Otis Skinner." She married in 1927 and settled into domesticity, but in 1946 resumed her career in Miracle on 34th Street, portraying an irate mother haranguing a Macy's Santa Claus...