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...lasted only 15 minutes, but Isabel and Joseph Garrett will undoubtedly remember it as the best TV program of their lives. The Garretts, a Negro couple seeking to adopt a child, were seated in the Buffalo offices of the Erie County Children's Aid Society. On screen, they saw a video-tape recording of Amy, 2½, also a Negro, who had been given away by her mother at birth, raised in a foster home, and was now up for adoption in Wilmington...
Observed by the cameras in a high school TV workshop, the little girl leafed through picture books, ran, jumped, laughed and turned somersaults. "Boy!" exclaimed Mrs. Garrett. "She's just what the doctor ordered...
...find too much to say about Warren Knowlton and Marty Ritter, as Mr. and Mrs. Edward Chamberlayne, the couple that gives and lives the cocktail party. Each seems to strike the right chord now and again, but more often they're just awkward enough to be vaguely troubling. Glenda Garrett is somewhat smoother than the others as Celia, and Harrison Drinkwater at least looks right as Peter; but no single actor is strong enough to hold things together by himself...
...five--Marland P. Billings '23, professor of Geology, Garrett Birkhoff '32, professor of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Matthew S. Meselson, professor of Biology, David Turnbull, Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, and Kenneth J. Arrow, who will join the Faculty as professor of Economics next fall--were among 50 new members elected to the Academy on Saturday. They will be members for life...
...black doctors, scientists and inventors made important contributions to post-Civil War technological advances. Jan Ernst Matzeliger, a native of Dutch Guiana, laid the foundations of the shoe in dustry with his shoe-lasting machine, Norbert Rillieux greatly lowered the price of sugar with a new refining technique, and Garrett Morgan introduced a number of life-saving devices, not least of which was the traffic signal. George Washington Carver, of course, transformed Southern agriculture by discovering scores of new uses-from peanut butter to shaving cream-for the lowly peanut, soybean and sweet potato. In medicine, Dr. Daniel Hale Williams...