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...learned to their dismay that the Soviets had cracked the secret. They suspected that spies were to blame. In April of 1951, Federal Judge Irving Kaufman looked down at the defendants. "Plain, deliberate, contemplated murder is dwarfed in magnitude by comparison with the crime you have committed," he told Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. "I believe your conduct in putting into the hands of the Russians the A-bomb... has already caused the Communist aggression in Korea ... and who knows but that millions more of innocent' people may pay the price of your treason...
...President Bok confers honorary degrees at Commencement on Harold Robbins, John Belushi, Halston, Dennis Kucinich, Cheryl Tiegs, Julius Erving, Erica Jong, John Wayne Gacy, Amy Carter and the Bee Gees. The Corporation also reportedly offers degrees to the Rev. Jim Jones and former President Harry S Truman, who decline to attend the ceremony...
...mighty, but the New York City Opera has Beverly Sills. In 1966 she became a top star overnight, singing the coloratura role of Cleopatra in Handel's Julius Caesar. She repaid City Opera by becoming the bestselling box-office draw in its 34-year history. Last January, when Sills, 49, announced that she would end her singing career in 1980, she promised that she would stay on at City Opera?as co-director with Julius Rudel, 57, her mentor and director of the company for 21 years. Last week "Good Queen Bev," as Rudel has called her since her smashing...
...menu featured California grapes and orange julius drinks. Slides of the Golden Gate and of Big Sur flashed on a screen in the middle of the dining hall, and from the speakers blared, who else?, the Beach Boys. The old Harvard dark wood-panelled dining hall walls were plastered with airline odes to the joys...
...DIED. Julius Shiskin, 66, Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner whose monthly barometric reading of unemployment and prices measured the economic weather; of a kidney ailment; in Washington, D.C. A career civil servant, Shiskin worked in the Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget before being appointed to his last post by President Nixon in 1973. Respected and apolitical, the BLS chief was reappointed by President Carter last year. Finding the consumer price index too narrowly based, Shiskin worked out new formulas to better gauge the costs of U.S. goods and services...