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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Overhead, huge glass chandeliers hover like Cobra gunships in a white tropical sun. The Los Angeles Marriott Hotel ballroom is a sea of white military formal wear, pink and blue evening dresses, candles and carnations over red carpeting. Nelson Riddle's orchestra swings into What Kind of Fool Am...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Los Angeles: Prisoners of War | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

ALLAN P. BAKKE, the 38-year-old engineer who claimed he suffered reverse discrimination at the hands of the University of California when his applications to the U.C. DavisMedical School were rejected in 1973 and 1974, will at last be among the new faces on that campus in September. For...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Bakke: The Morning After | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

Powell's opinion embraces the policies of the Harvard College admissions office, as outlined in Harvard's amicus brief on the case, as "an illuminating example" of the kind of program the Court's decision points to. Harvard's policy, Powell favorably remarks, does not focus on admitting the minority...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Bakke: The Morning After | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

Finally, it seems clear that the Court, perhaps for the sake of certain legal technicalities, blinded itself to critical data. The decision to order Bakke's admission, for example, underlines this point. This ruling is tenable only on the basis of the initial trial record, which is unusually limited--the...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Bakke: The Morning After | 6/30/1978 | See Source »

Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Sopranos Arleen Augér, Ileana Cotrubas and Edith Gruberova, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Werner Hollweg, Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); La Clemenza di Tito (Mezzos Janet Baker and Yvonne Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Classic and Choice | 6/26/1978 | See Source »

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