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...cities above the Mason-Dixon line struggle with decay and impoverishment; Houston, Dallas and Atlanta are large-scale success stories. The tide of migration is reversing; the South is now receiving white-collar workers, middle management and an intellectual elite from the North...
Nineteen stickwomen returned for the first day of practice, including nine letterpeople from last year: captain Anne Dupuis, Abby Homans, Mary Howard, Maureen Mason, Marjorie Williams, Lucy Wood, Gwill York, Anna Jones and Karen Linsley...
...another-at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary and Connecticut's Hartford Seminary Foundation. More recently Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union and the Chicago Divinity School have been correcting the imbalance in the West, but there has been no collection below the Mason-Dixon line to match the luster of those in the Northeast. Now that has changed. Last week the final shipment of some 220,000 volumes-nearly 4% shelf miles of books-from Hartford's superb collection went South, bound for the library of Candler School of Theology, part of Emory University...
...until one misty pre-dawn 4 o' clock he came powersliding around Left-Hand Hill, head full of twanging country music and yellowjackets, to meet broadside the combine of an early-morning farmer who was pulling it across the road. The Mercury, little more than engine and gasoline and mason jars full of 145-proof alcohol, immediately ignited. People down in the valley whose bedrooms faced the hillside rose, wiping sleep from their eyes and wondering at the false dawn. The Baptist congregations got a cheap and predictable sermon on the wages of sin, and Bell's uncle...
...just when it was desperately needed. Donna de Varona ignored fascinating aspects of the women's swimming, using her time, instead, to lobby for U.S. Government-supported athletic programs. It was as if the East Germans had launched a Sputnik rather than Kornelia Ender. Gymnast Commentator Cathy Rigby Mason upheld the standards of Olympic amateurism, trilling things like "Look at that amplitude," without defining it. But other "expert" commentators came through admirably. Ken Sitzberger clearly distinguished the great dives from the merely good ones; Bill Russell delivered intelligent and humane analyses of the basketball games with casual grace...