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...ISAAC B. GRAINGER...
...Houston, a school that only began playing major-college sports in 1946, it was the culmination of a building program that has already produced championship-caliber teams in golf, football and baseball. But basketball was luck. In 1964, Isaac Morehead, basketball coach at Texas Southern University, a predominantly Negro school, walked into the office of Houston Coach Guy Lewis and begged him to recruit a prospect from Eula Britton High School in rural Louisiana. The young man's name was Elvin Hayes; he played, said Morehead, like Bill Russell's younger brother. Morehead's reason for approaching...
...interest in education are special student editions and rates, free college advertisements, a weekly Teacher's Guide to TIME, classroom wall maps and charts, a study guide to the Foreign Policy Association's Great Decisions, and TIME's Guide to the Year 2000, written by Dr. Isaac Asimov, one of the world's foremost forecasters of future socio-scientific realities...
...million Hadassah Medical Center in West Jerusalem. The Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem were scheduled with little change in the traditions established while the town was under Arab rule. As many as 40,000 Jewish pilgrims a day travel to Hebron to visit the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac and Jacob), which for 700 years has been an Arab mosque. Jewish tourists literally swarm over the Golan Heights every weekend. On 9,211-ft. Mount Hermon, in what used to be Syria, a group of enterprising kibbutzniks plans to open a ski resort that might just be called the Shalom...
...birthday celebration that was an almost exact copy of the first-night program. But little else was the same. At the birthday concert, the distinguished musicians in the black-tie audience far outnumbered those on the stage (among them: Composer Aaron Copland, Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Isaac Stern and retired Tenor Lauritz Melchior). Ticket prices were set as high as $35 (regular concerts currently bring an $8.50 top). The orchestra, which merged in 1928 with the rival New York Symphony and became the Philharmonic-Symphony Society, has doubled from the original 53 players, to 106. What...