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...years ago, Pearl Sydenstricker Buck hired Theodore F. Harris, a ballroom-dancing instructor, to teach her the rumba. Widow Buck, now 74, took a motherly interest in Harris, now 36, named him president and executive director of her tax-exempt Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which since 1964 has raised $155,000 to help care for about 1,000 of the hundreds of thousands of rejected, mixed-blooded "Amerasian" youths who since 1945 have been fathered by American servicemen from Korea to Viet Nam. Mrs. Buck and Harris swung across the U.S. last year on a fund-raising tour that actually...
...Majestic Opportunism." The committee then spent two days in bitter debate before adopting, 21 to 13, Maryland Republican Charles Mathias' substitute proposal, which would exempt individual homeowners and owners of dwellings with four units or less. A principal feature of the substitute clause is that it would permit other owners to make two discriminatory transactions in a single year, but would make a third such sale illegal; large-scale real estate operators would thus find it difficult to segregate big apartments or tracts. Almost apologetically, Committee Chairman Emanuel Celler of Brooklyn noted afterward: "All good legislation is the result...
...Chicago Bears Linebacker Dick Butkus ($100,000) and Green Bay Packers Fullback Jim Grabowski ($250,000). Players might claim that the league was limiting their right to choose the place and price of their employment. To head off such an action, league officials are lobbying for legislation that would exempt pro football from federal antitrust laws...
...three decades, relations between the University and the City have grown slowly better. "The real friction used to be back in the '20's and '30's when you always had a rising tax rate," recalls one city official. "The politicians would always blame the rise on the tax-exempt properties of the University. In those days, the Universities were the politicians' kicking boards...
...editors asked. Hiring could then be done by seniority in each group. This time the Guild demurred. All that the mediators could do was to send each side home to work out counterproposals. That still left the problem of deciding on the "dingleberries"-the employees who would be exempt from seniority restrictions because of "special skills and outstanding abilities...