Word: duking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...everyone at CBS was eager to see Schorr return. Some executives were still fuming over Schorr's remarks to Duke University students, in January 1975, implying that CBS had pressured Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid and Dan Rather to go easy on Richard Nixon the night he announced his resignation from the presidency-a charge all three deny. Worse, for several hours last Feb. 11, Schorr let his bosses believe that Fellow Correspondent Lesley Stahl leaked the Pike report. Some of the people Schorr worked with in the CBS Washington bureau have never forgiven him. Said a correspondent...
James David Barber is getting a bit weary of people coming up to him and telling him their mothers-in-law are "active-negative" types. But the burden is borne genially by this Duke University political science professor who devised his special psychological measurement for Presidents, not for mothers...
...Beverly, along the North Shore, Sandy's Jazz Revival is keeping up its summer reputation as the finest showcase of left-over Duke Ellington and Count Basie stars. This week it's Helen Humes, the Count's vocalist, through Saturday. She just finished a long engagement at the Cookery in New York...
Since Mencken published his notorious essay in 1920, many oases have bloomed in that Sahara, among them the present-day Universities of North Carolina, Texas and Virginia as well as Duke, Vanderbilt, Rice and Tulane. Nevertheless, when indices of excellence are applied to higher education, the South, in general, comes up short. Slightly more than a quarter of the nation's 3,016 accredited institutions are located there, but a 1970 study showed that the South had only 5% of the nation's best graduate programs and just 8% of the best graduate faculties. In 1975 fewer than...
...South's civilian labor force rose more than 40%; much of the increase was in technical and professional jobs. Women have accomplished this quiet revolution almost circumspectly -taking a cue from their mothers by never attacking the old code headon. "As long as she was respectable," says Duke University Historian Anne Firor Scott, "a Southern woman could get away with an awful lot." A young Georgia-born woman-now a writer in New York-recalls her mother drumming into her head: "Do, but don't be seen doing." Says Molly Haskell, a Manhattan movie critic who was raised...