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...book on barbecuing. -- SIRHAN SIRHAN, assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, was sentenced to death, later reduced to life imprisonment. He lost his ninth bid for parole in May 1987. -- TOMMIE SMITH, U.S. track star and Black Power protester at the Mexico City Olympics, is a physical-education and health instructor at California's Santa Monica College. -- TINY TIM (Herbert Khaury), falsetto-voiced pop entertainer, continues to sing and record. He is divorced from Miss Vicki, whom he wed on the Tonight Show in 1969. -- ANDREW YOUNG, formerly a top aide to Martin Luther King Jr., is finishing his second four...
...upheaval were frequently petty. At Columbia, a protest over the university's affiliation with a war-research institute and its planned encroachment on a ghetto park turned into a six-day occupation of campus buildings. At San Francisco State University, a battle over the suspension of a part-time instructor led to months of strikes, demonstrations and clashes with police. The spokespersons of revolt -- they came from nowhere -- were doctoral candidates in confrontation, who skillfully mixed tactics of civil disobedience with the electronic amplifier of television. The global village became the global...
University of Georgia instructor Jan Kemp was dismissed from the faculty after complaining about the coddling treatment given to partial qualifiers in the school's remedial studies program. She sued the university and received $ 1.8 million in a negotiated settlement...
...Pebble in the Sky, in 1950. "I presented a copy to my father," Asimov remembers. "I think it was then that he finally forgave me my failure to get into medical school ten years before." Actually, he was in medical school -- Boston University School of Medicine -- but as an instructor in biochemistry. The meager salary, plus payments for occasional sci-fi short stories, supported Asimov, his first wife and their son and daughter for ten years. It was then that he decided to break for New York City and a free-lance career. But he retained his academic title...
Paul Pierson, instructor in Government, believes one reason for the reversal in attitude is the shift in swing voters over the last 25 years. In 1964, Lyndon Johnson believed he needed the Black vote in order to win re-election. His War on Poverty represented, at least in part, an attempt to appeal to this crucial constituency...