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Five Harvard students this week received Marshall scholarships for study next year at British universities. The students are David F. Bush '81, Michael S. Elias '81, Jerome Levi '81, Paul Y. Liu '81, and Eric P. Rakowsky '80. The Marshall scholarship, founded by the British government in 1953 in appreciation for American aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan, is awarded to students who demonstrate "distinction of intellect and character" and who show promise of making "a significant contribution to their society...
...bankrolled by the estate of a multimillionaire Texas financier; TOT's success has been so swift and sure it is now flourishing on a million-dollar budget. Some of that comes from revenues and some from grants by Texaco, Exxon, First City Bancorporation of Texas, Dresser Industries and Levi Strauss, as well as the state of Texas and the National Endowment for the Arts. This year the group comes East for the first time (stops will include Albany, Ga., Danville, Va., and Asheville, N.C.), and later may go to Alaska...
...minor-league players were drafted by big-league clubs during last week's meetings; a year ago, just ten players were selected. The Oakland A's-reviving under General Manager-Manager Billy Martin and flush with funds since Skinflint Owner Charlie Finley sold the team to Levi Strauss Chairman Walter A. Haas Jr. last summer-have passed up the free-agent market in favor of acquiring minor-league clubs to develop young players. Other clubs are following suit...
...years ago, Paul Freelob ran the neighborhood head shop. His hair was shoulder length, and he called himself Paul Free. He sold rolling paper, black-light posters and patchouli oil across the counter, and something a little more interesting under it. He wore biker boots, denims contoured by Levi, not Seventh Avenue, and diamond-shaped shades in wire frames. His favorite band was the Doobie Brothers, and he could sing all the words to Listen to the Music...
Mauzy strongly believes the Covenant can bring about "a long-term change in attitude" in Boston. He does not expect it to be an easy task, but one which will involve an extensive and widespread commitment. To focus on cases such as the death this summer of Black youth Levi Hart by a white police officer's gun, or the confrontation shortly thereafter between Black and White Dorchester gangs in which a white man, Gerald White, was fatally shot, is not the aim of the Covenant, Mauzy said. "If I were a member of the Covenant [committee] I think...