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...booby traps to find good reason why they should use these skills and risk their lives against the enemy of personal injustice as they did against the enemy of Communist aggression." Negro Leader Bayard Rustin has a more constructive view: "As the students of 1960 were in the forefront of the civil rights movement back then, the Negro G.I. will be in the forefront of the next phase...
...Forefront. The son of a Quaker minister and holder of a degree in composition from Boston University, Ellis served his apprenticeship by playing and writing for groups of every musical stripe from Charlie Mingus and Woody Herman to the New York Philharmonic, with interludes of teaching and organizing jazz happenings. His band currently works only once a week regularly, at a Hollywood spot called Bonesville; between dates, he supports himself by playing studio orchestras and scoring TV sound tracks. Now he has a long string of offers from festivals in Europe and the U.S. He sees himself in the forefront...
...executive of Northrop Corp., which builds Apollo's earth-landing and intercommunications systems: "NASA inspects, reinspects and inspects again. NASA lives with us. You can't separate NASA from the contractor." Declining to ascribe blame at all, another aerospace official points out that in projects "on the forefront of technology, there just isn't any perfection." As if to prove that point, a General Electric Co. study made public last week itemized more than 1,300 flaws in an Apollo spacecraft being readied for an unmanned test flight later this year; most of the bugs were...
...whole soul. It knocks me out. It kills me. If I couldn't do that, I wouldn't be." The excitement of his performances may not fully justify his description of himself as "Mr. Blues," but it is more than enough to place him in the forefront of the scene. Among other standouts...
...committee then recommended censure it would go before the annual meeting in April; then it might appear in the AAUP BULLETIN on the list of censured institutions. This is the "sanction" which the AAUP imposes. Our strike, a defensive action against a "lockout" of union learers active in the forefront of educational reform at St. John's has aroused the entire academic, labor and intellectual world. It has made teaching and being a student at St. John's acts of shame...