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...have begun to organize with all the skill and determination of other embattled minorities. Such burgeoning pressure groups as the Gray Panthers, the National Council on the Aging, the National Association of Retired Federal Employees and the National Council of Senior Citizens have given their political representatives little respite. Foremost among their goals has been the fight for the right to work...
...followed famed historian Frederick Jackson Turner to Harvard where he expanded on his mentor's well-known "frontier thesis" of American history and in so doing established himself as one of the foremost American historians...
Bernard Darwin, the foremost golf writer of the period, had made one of his rare transatlantic passages to report the maiden Walker Cup Match for The London Times. When the captain of the British squad, Robert Harris, was sidelined by illness, the irrepressible Darwin stepped into the breach and won his singles match...
Fortunately, Taylor's many admirers did not agree. One of them was John P. Holmes Jr.. president of the National Corporate Fund for Dance. Says Holmes: "The idea of disbanding one of the foremost modern-dance companies was absolutely ludicrous. It could not happen." It did not happen because the National Corporate Fund-created in 1972 to dig money out of the corporate world for U.S. dance companies-went beyond the realm of fund raising. Holmes became the Taylor Company's president and began cutting costs where he could, notably by limiting the company's number...
Ross G. Terrill, associate professor of Government and one of the world's foremost authorities on modern China, also did not receive tenure this year. Apparently, the department felt it had enough distinguished Sinologists, and anyway Terrill's activities were considered so interdisciplinary--and perhaps too journalistic--for one single department...