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Massell, a former real estate dealer and member of one of Atlanta's wealthiest Jewish families, has earned black support through his leadership of a statewide civil rights committee and local antidiscrimination efforts. Yet Cook also talks about the need for harmonious race relations and contends that he is "the only candidate able to bring people together." To cope with Atlanta's financial crisis, Cook urges that the city be consolidated with surrounding Fulton County. Massell bravely proposes a city income tax and invites nearby municipalities to join the city. The contest is close, and both Massell...
...casualties of the peaceful and orderly Moratorium Day activities was Clark Kerr, former president of the University of California. As he addressed an Indiana University audience on the eve of M-day, counseling nonviolence, someone turned off the lights in the lecture hall. A figure in a gaudy Halloween costume and mask dashed in from a side door and hurled a custard pie into Kerr's face. He scored a direct hit, then raced away. (Collared and later unmasked by police, the masquerader, a onetime student radical, was arrested.) Dr. Kerr calmly removed his glasses and wiped them clean...
Artaud and Grotowski are as different as pure and applied science, but the latter would not be possible without the former. Artaud was an unsuccessful French actor who died insane in 1948. He was also a visionary and a prophet with a dream of what theater might be. In poetic though sometimes muzzy language, he coined the idea of "a theater of cruelty." To interpret the phrase solely by conventional usage is to miss a great deal of what Artaud meant by it. For example, he wrote, "Everything that acts is a cruelty," and "Cruelty is rigor...
After going to Rutgers as an assistant professor of economics, he married the former Helen Bernstein, a onetime schoolteacher. Burns became an expert on business cycles, tracing 600 economic indicators through their ups and downs, and isolated 21 that gave an early guide to the direction of the economy as a whole. By the time Eisenhower entered the White House, Burns was an idea man whose time had come. A recession had begun...
...cheaper small computers for the home; other companies are already working on the idea. Singer recently announced that its Friden office-equipment division will bring out at least one new product a month for the next year. "Developing new products is like a gigantic crap game," says Boone Gross, former president of the Gillette Co. "The cost of failure-either by not getting into the game or by launching unsuccessful products-is astronomical. Yet the profits to be earned from successful new products are almost with limits...