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...JULIAN FIFER is a gentle, soft-spoken 19-year-old cellist who is a Columbia College sophomore. Before the Cambodian invasion and the student deaths at Kent State University, he says, "I hadn't reached the state within myself to be involved in anything political. I had my music. The disruption of everything this spring forced me into a commitment." It is a strong commitment. Recently he and four other students walked onto a building site in lower Manhattan where they spent more than four hours discussing their differences with the construction...
Twelve has long been a magic number. There were twelve tribes of Israel, twelve Apostles, twelve months in the Julian calendar and twelve signs of the zodiac. In U.S. federal courts, criminal defendants are entitled to twelve jurors, and most states follow the same practice. Last week the Supreme Court ruled that the tradition of twelve jurors may be ignored by the states...
...Julian Bond, Legislator
Clark, Georgia Legislator Julian Bond, Radical Columnist I.F. Stone, and Senators Muskie and Kennedy. Most speakers have pointedly avoided the usual traces of condescension and easy platitude. Subjects have ranged afield. Planned Parenthood Crusader Alan Guttmacher urged Smith graduates to practice fertility control; at Vassar, where most graduates' caps were bedecked with peace symbols, Writer Gloria Steinem spoke on Women's Liberation. But the dominant themes were war and the young...
...with a hot water bottle wrapped in a panda cover. Stalin had thin, sloping shoulders and achieved his robust look with a padded military greatcoat. George Bernard Shaw teased Nancy Astor about her boyish bosom. Such are the recollections in Memories, the just-published autobiography of Biologist-Author Sir Julian Huxley, 76. And how would Sir Julian himself like to be remembered? "Not primarily for my specialized scientific work, but as a generalist; one to whom, enlarging Terence's words, nothing human, and nothing in external nature, was alien...