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U.C.L.A. Alumnus J. Miller Leavy, a member of his alma mater's athletic advisory board, suddenly remembered out loud that he knew all about an organization called the Southern California Educational Foundation, which had slid $71,235 under the table to U.S.C. athletes. The foundation's books had been a matter of public record for years. Assistant District Attorney Leavy presented his evidence at this time, he said, because he felt that good old U.C.L.A. had been unfairly singled out for punishment...
Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, lectured yesterday on Russian literature at his alma mater--Moscow University. He won heavy applause in his first return to his native land in 36 years...
...Like a Movie." Gradually he began to pass the word along that there was a shelter in the Church of Mater Dei, but the suspicious scugnizzi gave it a wide berth. Late one winter night he watched sadly as a group of three scugnizzi stripped a drunk to the skin, then he plodded off, muttering aloud: "I'm going to Mater Dei to get out of the cold." When he arrived at the church he fumbled wearily in his pockets; he had forgotten his key. He hammered with his hands upon the door. The custodian opened it at last...
That night of the providentially forgotten key was the beginning of a tide of hungry, hard-bitten little boys that has flowed into Mater Dei ever since. At last, one day Father Borelli felt sure enough of success to walk among the scugnizzi in his clerical robes. No one recognized him until he produced a snapshot of himself dressed as a scugnizzo. First they gaped in astonishment, then they crowded in to touch his habit and kiss his hand...
Handle with Love. Some 200 boys have graduated from Mater Dei's clean dormitories and affectionate supervision to steady jobs and marriage, or back to their families. "Actually, we can't offer them as much materially as they can win for themselves on the streets," says Mario Borelli. "So why do they come to this church, and why do they stay? It is very simple. Scugnizzi are not animals. They are humans, and instinctively feel that animal life is wrong...