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Mary Mebane is lecturer in composition at the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. The two passages on these pages are excerpted from her just published autobiography, Mary (Viking; $12.95). A lifelong teacher of literature who was born in Durham County, N.C., in 1933, Mebane in her book recounts with insight, compassion and anger what it was like growing up female and black in the South before the civil rights revolution began...
...DURHAM, N.C.--Student representatives from 11 major universities will meet at Duke University February 19 to 22 to discuss "Students Affecting Change" in the third annual Inter-Collegiate Conference...
...DURHAM. N.C.--A joint committee of students and administrators recommended in January that an Afro-American cultural center be established at Duke University, ending an 11-year-old dispute between Black students and the administration...
...DURHAM. N.C.--Three divers began a 36 day simulated ocean dive at Duke University Medical Center two weeks ago. The project, named Atlantis III, is expected to set a world record by simulating the pressure of diving over 2000 feet below the ocean surface...
...recent and much resented addition to such discussions) and to check minor-league scouting reports. Abruptly, the men exchanged handshakes, then departed to announce formally that Cubs Relief Ace Bruce Sutler had been sent to the Cardinals in exchange for Third Baseman Ken Reitz, second-year Outfielder Leon Durham and a St. Louis minor leaguer to be named later. That seemingly casual negotiation was symbolic of baseball's return to its old ways after five years of free-agent chaos. For the first time since players won the right to play out their options and sell their services...