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...learned scholar was not without a wry sense of humor. When Law School professor Austin Scott, then just a student, and a roommate named McNeil visited the Justice at his home, they followed the traditional procedure of sending their calling cards up to him beforehand. Holmes came lumbering down the stairs, flipping the cards and reciting a ditty...
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...certainly carried out its part of the bargain. In the past 18 months, such liberal commentators as Sander Vanocur, Bill Moyers and Robert McNeil have disappeared from its schedule, although its public-affairs coverage has not been substantially reduced. It has also brought what the Administration fondly describes as "grassroots democracy" to the system by giving the nation's 246 local PBS stations the budgetary power to control programming by buying or rejecting possible PBS shows in a form of program "auction." Only those shows winning sufficient financial commitment from local stations will be included in the PBS lineup...
...experimented with the mechanical processes of photography. He has learned both to add and to elaborate on the basic method to increase the power of his images. In the photogravure I mentioned earlier, for example, the mysticism in the background comes almost accidentally from the developing procedure. But Ron McNeil, in his 1970 "Tinker's Child," extends this interaction of subject matter and technique. By hand wiping his etched plate before printing it, McNeil strengthens the mystical streaks into strong forms that echo the haunting quality of the child's face...
...intelligence sources contended that the documents outlining the purported plot were circulated in Mexico by one Richard Alexander Zander, 31, an ex-convict and accused kidnaper who fled the U.S. last month while on parole from McNeil Island federal penitentiary in Washington State, where he had served time for transporting stolen goods. A U.S. court has issued a warrant for his arrest as a fugitive from justice...