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More successful, and certainly the most energetic of the insurgents fomenting the Dark Suit Rebellion, of course, was the instigator, Charles Summer. Where Lowell hankered for the more arresting colors, the radical Summer thought a more conservative buff would suffice. The faculty did not. Mere approximations to the permissible white vest were not to be condoned...
Twice the faculty tribunal threatened. Thrice Charles Summer, impressed by the preference of Webster and Burke for buff on state occasions, remained adamant. Destined in the senate to argue the necessity of equating black and white, already young Summer had the temerity to equate buff and white. It is a credit to his rhetoric (more interminable than grandiloquent, in this instance) that in the trial following his third departure from the college norm, the exhausted faculty voted " . . . that in the future, Summer's vest be regarded by this board as white...
...ballet* and Nolan's first cover for TIME. It was a commission that he welcomed with great enthusiasm. An Australian who now lives in London, Nolan is known for his brooding canvases, his translucent colors, and his figures of man, often puzzled but always dignified. A ballet buff for years, he designed the sets for Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring at London's Covent Garden. He is a convinced Nureyev fan, has been observing the dancer since 1962. In London he once watched from the balcony for a week while Nureyev was rehearsing for Romeo...
...leaves mountain climbing to Eastern Democrats. Nonetheless, California's Governor Pat Brown, 59, has been a physical-fitness buff ever since his days as an all-round athlete at San Francisco's Lowell High ('23). So when it came to promoting Teen-Age Fitness, Brown allowed that he'd be glad to lend a hand-two, in fact. Inspired by Connecticut's Gymnast Muriel Grossfeld, 24, a comely, three-time U.S. Olympic team member who's touring the country in the cause of trimmer teenagers, Brown flopped on the light grey carpet...
...Color Spectrum. With a corporate sigh, the Joint Chiefs of Staff settled down to work. For the next four hours, staff officers presented and explained position papers. Those papers are first drafted on white paper, reprinted on buff paper when sent out to field commands for comment. By the time they reach the J.C.S., they have "gone green." If the Chiefs accept them, they are put in a red-striped folder and sent on to the Pentagon's civilian leaders as official J.C.S. recommendations. If the Chiefs reject a paper, it "goes purple." When the Chiefs split-as they...