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Martins fondly recalls the mornings when Balanchine arrived at the theater at 8 a.m. to help him with the fine points of lighting. But Mr. B. was not always so accommodating. A scant three hours before the premiere of Martins' setting of Stravinsky's Suite from Histoire du Soldat, Balanchine examined the costumes, pronounced them "awful" and threw them out. The dancers went on clothed in bits and pieces from the costume bins and shod in boots that Martins himself had spray-painted black an hour earlier. "He was right," Martins now says. "The costumes I had picked...
Just as frustrating is the inability of blacks to be accepted as professional equals. Van Johnson, 43, a Ph.D. in chemistry, joined Du Pont in 1968, and is now responsible for divisional sales of about $15 million. He observes, "In a company like this, sophisticated and genteel society that it is, it is difficult to define manifest prejudice. But no matter how long I have been here, there is always the suspicion when I negotiate a contract that maybe I didn't bring home as much as I might have if I were white...
...earnestness, Walter Cronkite used to plead that his half-hour script would not fill three-quarters of a single newspaper page and that distortion was "the inevitable result of trying to get ten pounds of news into the one-pound sack we are given each night." Speaking at a du Pont Awards ceremony at Columbia University in February, NBC's Tom Brokaw said that unfortunately many Americans "have come to rely on us as their primary and only source of information" and "we are inadequate to that task." It just may be the anchormen should relax a little...
...real suspects. The major development was a brief flurry about a "mystery woman" who had turned in a bottle of cyanide-poisoned Tylenol to Chicago police on Oct. 14. The mystery, police later confessed, was actually a "clerical error" that had caused them to misidentify which judge of the Du Page County, Ill., circuit court was her husband. The woman turned out to be Linda Morgan, 35, wife of Judge Lewis Morgan...
Harvard has more than $50 million invested in the three companies--General Electric. Du pont. and American Telephone and Telegraph--according to the most recent University financial report...