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ARMED with a journalism degree from the University of Washington and a graduate certificate from a Harvard-Radcliffe business administration program, Lucy Werner approached the publishing industry in 1964. She found herself facing a long climb in two ways. Her first temporary job was typing in our business office. "I was so easily flustered," recalls Mrs. Werner, "that I accidentally locked myself in the fire stairway. I walked down 34 flights to the ground floor, where I saw a sign over the exit: ALARM WILL SOUND WHEN DOOR IS OPENED. So I took the only rational course of action...
...season for that glum annual speculation: Will the nation's cities erupt in racial violence? As temperatures climb and hundreds of thousands of youths find themselves jobless in the ghetto streets, this year the tinder is drier than it has been since the fiery spring of 1968. While the urban ghettos have seemed quiet for a long time, it was plain all along that there was discouragement, if not despair, beneath the surface, and that violent anger could again erupt if conditions failed to improve...
...tennis team travels to Annapolis today to play the last crucial match of their EITA schedule. A win against Navy would assure sole possession of second place-and if either Navy, Penn or Columbia should upset Princeton, the Crimson would climb into a tie for first...
...seven shows, five of which were hits. Only his 1966 musical, Anyone Can Whistle, a precious fable about a smalltown miracle, and 1965's Do I Hear a Waltz? (with music by Richard Rodgers) failed to pay box-office dividends. The rest of the time has been a steady climb, built on internal verse, infernal verse, trip-hammer rhyme schemes and time schemes, sublime schemes, which began their ascent at about the time South Pacific dominated Broadway...
...lecturer on problems of the handicapped. It was designed to demonstrate how blind, autistic, crippled and retarded children can be helped to cope with their biggest problem: isolation from an environment that they find frustrating and frightening. Abnormal children, Sandhu explains, "seldom know what it means to fall off, climb into, squeeze through." Thus they find it difficult to "build up images of the world through their senses...