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...came back to me Saturday night as I watched the CBS game of the week--the spectacular showdown between the number one Alabama Crimson Tide and the Auburn Tigers. There were the frenzied Southern fans who had filled Birmingham's Legion Field to its 70,000 capacity--as they always do. They were jubilant, chaotic and totally drunk on the spectacle of Southern football--as they always are. I know, because I've been there...
...kindly to a new dancer and diffident with a doorman. Yet the presence of this "towering man with a frown," as one company member puts it, can be unpredictably explosive. He does not suffer fools gladly, which explains why there is a small legion known as "Kirstein widows"-people he no longer talks to. Among them: New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, whose early artistic interests he nurtured but with whom he later had differences...
Wine Time. While Joe Tomaszewski's boys play the Happy-Go-Lucky Polka, two representatives of the Richfield American Legion Clown Club do their turns for Bernie's 100-odd invited guests and scores of passersby. Bernie figures the festivities have cost him $400, which he paid out of his purple checkbook (he writes in purple...
...precedents are slight, the uncertainties legion. But Vice President Spiro Agnew's situation now seems sure to force the resolution of a number of long open constitutional questions. Last week TIME asked six experts in constitutional law and history to discuss together the complex issues and implications of the case. The six: Raoul Berger, 72, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow and authority on impeachment and Executive privilege; Alexander Bickel, 48, Yale...
Died. A.S. (for Alexander Sutherland) Neill, 89, Scottish psychologist and founder of the controversial Summerhill School; in Suffolk, England. Neill's students, many of whom were Americans, wrote their own rules of conduct, attended classes and exams, studied and bathed at their own discretion. Though his critics were legion, Neill doggedly propagated his theories with wry good humor for a half-century in more than a score of books (Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, The Problem Parent...