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...article "Deadwood's Defunct Houses" [July 28], you quote Thomas Blair, supporter of "the anti-whorehouse drive," as saying: "I'm not going to legislate my morality on someone else, but I don't want anyone legislating their immorality on me." Mr. Blair seems to confuse permitting immorality with legislating it, as though the law could require him to patronize a house against his wishes. He manifests a tendency, increasingly common among Americans, to equate choice with compulsion...
...Korean War's three biggest reporting stars could not appear. In 1951 they shared the Pulitzer Prize. One, Keyes Beech, of the Chicago Daily News, was in Bangkok. At 66, he is charging around Asia again, now for the Los Angeles Times. Homer Bigart, 72, of the defunct Herald-Trib, sent a message of regret. He was, he explained, temporarily toothless: "I am capable of putting down the martini, but I can't handle the olives." The third, Marguerite Higgins, who worked with Bigart on the Trib, died in 1966 at age 45, of a tropical bug caught...
...Harvard participants, Fairfield, continued to investigate intelligence activities and wrote a series called "The Wiretappers" that filled The Reporter, a now-defunct periodical, almost cover-to-cover in 1952 and 1953. Fairfield, who now lives in Wisconsin, says Buckley made up the story about News staffers jostling a Crimson reporter at the Forum because no Crimson reporter covered the event...
...showdown has been the stuff of a hoop fan's dreams. Abdul-Jabbar, the N.B.A.'s five-time Most Valuable Player, the compleat center whose size (7 ft. 2 in.) does not diminish his grace. Julius Erving, the flashy, 6-ft. 6-in. forward from the now defunct A.B.A., whose rafter-clearing leaps and fluid moves earned him the sobriquet Dr. J (as in, watch him operate). Only after a merger of the warring leagues and four years of playoff eliminations did Abdul-Jabbar's Lakers dominate the West and Erving's 76ers conquer the East...
Before the Ed School joined the Johnson-inspired crusade for federalization, the school had focused on suburban schooling. The now-defunct Master of Arts in Teaching program used to train students for cushy positions in Brookline and Scarsdale. But eight years ago inflation, the disintegration of urban public education and a disappearing teacher's job market combined to force the elimination of many programs with direct ties to schools; the educational elite had decided that the Great Society would create the perfect classroom with broad-based, centralized planning. "All of those things were valid," Ylvisaker says, adding that, "We want...