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...strike is intended as a protest against the war and its effect on black society," Elvin Montgomery '68, vice president of the AAAAS, said yester...
...basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching Lewis was entirely self-protective. Hayes's two sisters had attended Southern University in Louisiana; his coach at Eula Britton was a Grambling graduate-and both of those schools were on Texas...
...Association of African and Afro-American Students at Harvard and Radcliffe has elected its officers for the coming year. They are Jeffrey P. Howard '69 of Winthrop House and Chicago, president; Elvin Montgomery Jr. '68 of Lowell House and New Orieans, La., vice-president; Robert L. Hall '69 of Leverett House and Tallahasse, Fla., secretary; Robert Scott'69 of Lowell House and Newport News, Va., Michael E. Watson '70 of Greenough Hall and St. Louis, communications officer; and George D. Houser '70 of Weld Hall and Rome, Ga., operations officer...
...grand jury dismissed Bailey's claim as having "no basis in truth or fact" and rebuked him for raising it. Though Bailey won a new trial for Sheppard by claiming prejudicial press coverage, the publicity in the Coppolino case clearly did not harm the defendant. Superior Court Judge Elvin Simmill, in fact, complimented reporters on their performance...
...They marvel at the fact that he never practices, has none of the calluses and bumps on his hands that other drummers have. Among rival stickmen, the admiration extends from old guardists such as Gene Krupa ("Buddy is the Maury Wills of the drums") to such new guardists as Elvin Jones ("His artistry is almost beyond belief"). But perhaps his most avid fans are symphony percussionists. "He's the world's greatest living natural jazz drummer," says the Boston Symphony's Howard Thompson. "He plays faster with one hand than most of us do with...