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...will often find it hard to command the same salary-much less the same number of lucrative endorsements and public appearances-as a white player of equal ability. Fullback-turned-Actor Jim Brown has formed the United Athletic Association to help such stars as the Cleveland Browns' Leroy Kelly get their just due. Three seasons ago, though he had succeeded Brown as the N.F.L.'s leading ground gainer, Kelly was earning only $21,000 a year. The following season the U.A.A. negotiated a new contract for Kelly that will pay him $320,000 over four years...
...difference between the old and new HRO becomes obvious when one compares the program of an earlier Harvard Club concert (a light overture, a medley of tunes by LeRoy Anderson, Strauss waltzes) with the Harvard Club program of February 22, 1970 (Stravinsky, Hindemith, Etler, Petzel, Hovhaness, Dahl, and Mozart). The orchestra has performed many premieres including the world premiere of a Dellapiecola piece, the New England premiere of the Kirchner plane ??rto (conducted by Kirchner and ??med by Luise Vosgerchian), the New England premiere of Gunter Schuller's Five B?? and premieres of some of Dr. yaks works...
...Fifth Circuit says that Carswell has "the ideal combination of physical vigor and dynamic personality." He is not, says Brown, "a neutral spirit." In contrast to his pleasant, gregarious manner off the bench, Carswell's decision-writing style is crisp and cautious. New York University Associate Law Professor Leroy Clark, a black former Legal Defense Fund lawyer in Florida, calls Carswell "very bright." But, adds Clark, "he was probably the most hostile judge I've ever appeared before. He was insulting to black lawyers; he rarely would let me finish a sentence." As proof of Carswell...
Smith. serving as prosecuting attorney last night, called six witnesses to the stand. Leroy Boston. counsel for the Boston consulate of the Republic of New Africa-a nationwide black revolutionary organization-acted as judge...
Only three of Morenci's nine Marines made it back alive. But Joe Sor-relman, 21, the Navajo who had first failed the aptitude test, Leroy Cisneros, 21, a Spanish-American, and Mike Cranford, 22, an Anglo, rarely see each other now. Sorrelman moved to Phoenix, and the other two, who live less than a mile apart, find that each meeting revives too many memories for them. Yet none of the three is really angry about the war. Cisneros survived 42 patrols in Viet Nam, mostly as the exposed point man, and saw his unit chewed up behind...