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...memory has room for some far from ordinary awards. Harvard, for example, offers more than $24,000 to needy students named Anderson, Baxendale, Borden, Bright, Downer, Murphy or Pennoyer (granted by benefactors of the same names), while Yale has $1,000 earmarked for persons named Leavenworth or DeForest. The Mae Helene Bacon-Boggs fund grants $300 a year to a female graduate of Shasta College who is admitted to the University of California at Berkeley, if she can prove that she does not drink or smoke. Carleton College provides about $600 to farmers' daughters. The University of Arizona offers...
...Starship Enterprise and its interplanetal, international, interracial crew. There's the Waspish Captain Kirk, played in a father-like manner by William Shatner; communications expert Uhura portrayed by the black and beautiful Nichele Nichols; Sulu, the oriental helmsman played by Walter Koenig; Dr. McCoy, the pacifist, depicted by DeForest Kelley; and of course the one and only Mr. Spock, half-Vulcan and half-human, portrayed by Leonard Nimoy. The crew becomes involved in a variety of intriguing tales, all of which make some comment on today's society. The shows deal with everything from sex to war, from racism...
...Washington Novel began after the Civil War as nothing more than a satirical yarn told by the likes of John William DeForest and Mark Twain. Despite the fact that the Federal Government had already begun to slip out of the hands of people--something that would-be Ralph Nadars like Francis Adams knew only too well--Americans still chose to treat their national leaders as if they were only extensions of their second-rate counterparts back home. But, during this century, Washington has grown so complex that mayors now must have advisors to learn how to cope with it. Alan...
...Federal agents in Albany. N.Y. seized 5,247 cases of "Honegar," a honey-and-vinegar preparation promoted as a traditional Vermont remedy by Dr. DeForest Clinton Jarvis, bestselling author of Folk Medicine (TIME, Dec. 28). Said U.S. Attorney Theodore F. Bowes: the stuff is touted as good for about 35 ailments, ranging from arthritis to chicken pox, but cannot be sold in interstate commerce "until the label tells how to use the product to get the cures claimed...
...Chicago TV Manufacturer Ulises A. Sanabria (deForest receivers) took an ad in the Sun-Times to say that it is "unAmerican and unsportsmanlike" for other set manufacturers to market remote control gadgets that make it easy for a TV viewer to kill the sound when a commercial goes on the air (some 2,500,000 "blab-offs" are now in operation in the U.S.). Adding that the public ought to be grateful to the advertisers who pay for the shows, Sanabria included coupons for people to send to their Congressmen, urging that all remote control cutoffs be outlawed...