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DIED. Irma Duncan, 80, adopted daughter and disciple of Isadora Duncan, the flamboyant founder of modern dance; in Santa Barbara, Calif. Born in Germany, at seven Irma Ehrich-Grimme joined Duncan's school at Grünewald as a scholarship student. She and five other "Isadorables" were later legally adopted by the famous dancer. In 1921 Irma helped her mother found a dancing school in the U.S.S.R., and after Isadora's death in 1927 brought to the U.S. a troupe of Soviet girls. She became a U.S. citizen and opened, in Manhattan, the first American Isadora Duncan School...
...nihilism of the terrorists worries West Germans; so does the inability-so far-of the government to subdue them. In what Chancellery Spokesman Dr. Armin Grünewald called a "tragic coincidence," the Cabinet last week adopted measures to strengthen Bonn's hand against the terrorists. The Cabinet action had no direct connection with the Schleyer kidnaping, since it had been prompted by measures tabled five months ago by the Christian Democratic opposition. The two sets of proposals, which the Bundestag will consider this month, agreed on a number of key points: 1) the trial of terrorists would...
Birmingham's coup de grâce, however, is a chapter called "Taste." He takes up what he calls "the complicated question of black taste, or perhaps, lack of it," and finds that all is "not quite right." Why, puzzles Birmingham, should the aristocratic wife of Washington's black mayor "satisfy herself with plastic plants in her house and settle for brightly colored glass ceiling fixtures"? Why does a Harlem socialite place a huge Steuben glass bowl in the center of her coffee table and fill it with gold-painted walnuts? Why, he asks, do so many blacks...
...that night, but they know one of his callers fingered him for execution. The old man was an easy target. As he walked away from the phone booth toward his home, he was dropped by a .22-cal. slug that entered his neck near the spine. The coup de grâce was a second shot near the right ear. No shots were heard...
...less frank." Says Richard Lyman, president of Stanford University: "Letters of recommendation, one suspects, have long been subject to a debasement of the coinage. And how-the drive to make them freely available to the persons about whom they are written seems perfectly designed to administer the coup de gr...