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...October 18, the Jefferson Starship will be at the Garden. Joining the Starship will be England's Fleetwood Mac, a group which has gone through more personnel changes since its inception than the White House. Fortunately, one remnant remains--Christene McVie's belle organe which won her the title of Britain's Top Female Vocalist in 1972. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7:30 p.m. but the open seating policy should be enough persuasion to get there at least two hours in advance...
...early bourgeois" Greenwich Village apartment, leads a spartan, work-centered life and has no hobbies. A native of Brooklyn, Brownmiller attended Cornell, leaving before graduation to study acting in Manhattan. She appeared in two off-Broadway plays and worked as a Newsweek researcher. Studying nights at the Jefferson School of Social Science, she took a course taught by Herbert Aptheker, the American Communist historian and specialist in Southern studies. In the historian's thunderous lectures on white exploitation of Southern blacks, including the abuse of black women, Brownmiller recalls, "I heard for the first time in my life that...
...contrast the Louisville boycott seems to be losing steam. In fact, 81% of the 124,000 pupils in the newly merged Louisville and Jefferson County school systems were in classes last week. Antibusing violence is ebbing. The night that the remainder of the 1,000 National Guard troops pulled out, some demonstrators took to the streets near Southern and Valley high schools, but their protest was almost orderly; a few ended up shaking hands with the police...
...contractor, was stopped by state troopers in riot gear as he headed across town in his 1969 pickup to visit his mother. Without explanation, they began beating on his fenders with their nightsticks and smashed his windshield. After Prell spun away in panic, he ran through a roadblock of Jefferson County policemen. Two county cops pursued him, and when Prell refused to pull over, one fired three .38-cal. bullets into the truck. Prell eluded his pursuer and made it home unhurt. Although Prell himself called the Louisville Courier-Journal and three radio and television stations to complain...
...women. Chase Manhattan Bank has put up $100,000 to help finance an exhibit called "200 Years of American Sculpture" that will open at New York's Whitney Museum next March. IBM has offered $500,000 to help pay for a multimedia exhibit, "The World of Franklin and Jefferson," that is now touring Europe. But these projects are vastly outnumbered by the kind described by Robert Freedman, president of Streisand, Zuch & Freedman, a New York ad agency. Says he: "I don't know how many clients have called and said, 'O.K., come up with a Bicentennial promotion...