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Finding a Calling. Separated from both his wife and his church, he moved to Hollywood after a hitch in the Army. There, one summer night in 1968, Perry bailed a fellow homosexual out of jail and tried to calm him. "It's no use," sobbed the young man. "No one cares for us homosexuals...
...careers. Conceived a year ago by 15 women students and teachers, San Diego's program breezed through the school's male-dominated academic senate last month. In fact, says one planner, "We received more resistance from women who didn't feel the program was needed." One hitch was the history department's refusal to label a new women's course "herstory...
...drilled brass attack, modulated by a sophisticated Ellingtonian touch. The first Herd's explosive rendition of such numbers as Apple Honey and Northwest Passage appealed to just about everybody-including Igor Stravinsky, who wrote the Ebony Concerto for Woody in 1946. The second Herd (1947-50) tried to hitch up with bebop, but muffled its big beat in the process and dropped $175,000. In the '50s and early '60s, Herman leaned toward one pop trend and then another, but basically stuck to a swinging style that never buried the beat...
Charles J. Hitch, President of the University of California
Apollo 13 itself reached the moon Tuesday night, but it never came closer than 158 miles. As it emerged from behind the far side, the astronauts prepared for the crucial "hurry-home" burn. But there was a hitch. So much debris was still floating outside the spacecraft's windows that a star sighting?to align Apollo properly for the burn?was impossible ("It looks like we're in the middle of the Milky Way," the astronauts had remarked earlier). But the spacemen neatly improvised by taking rougher fixes on the moon and the sun. Then they fired Aquarius' descent engine...