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Behind the thriving economy lay an even greater achievement: a state of mind and spirit that recognized long ago that good schools, expanding culture and economic development were too vital to be stopped short by a fight over integration. Like all Southern states, North Carolina met its toughest test after the Supreme Court's 1954 decision. But guided by able leadership, it did not panic. Instead it plotted minimum but legal compliance, went on to more important business-and in so doing soon put the crisis in reasonable perspective. Part of the credit was due to Governor Hodges...
...tenth wedding anniversary, high-strung Operatic Soprano Maria Callas, 35, made a pronouncement between helpings of selle d'agneau à la Callas. Manhattan-born Singer Callas attributed most of her professional success to the offstage support of her Milan tycoon husband, Giovanni Battista Meneghini, 64: "When I met him I was the most ridiculous singer of Italy, and he, a wealthy industrialist who owned 20 building-material plants, said, 'You have the most beautiful voice in the world,' and-thanks to his tenacity, his persuasion and his constant help-I could overcome all the difficulties...
Yesterday actually marked the first time that Harvard Overseers have met formally with Radcliffe trustees and Deans, and for many the meeting foreshadowed further changes in the relationship of Radcliffe to Harvard University. There have been conjectures, increasing steadily since the joint Harvard-Radcliffe financing of the new theatre, that Radcliffe would one day become a part of Harvard University, and at this time, with President Jordan planning to retire soon, such suspicions have increased considerably...
...dueling scene between the Capulets (gorgeously decked out in Renaissance finery) and the peasant-supported Montagues (in modest, everyday clothes) is a marvel of rocketing energy and split-second timing. The carnival scenes give the Bolshoi's male dancers an opportunity to come bounding like handballs off the Met's stage in the high, open leaps that are their special glory...
Points of View is no potboiler. There are five essays on subjects not precisely calculated to appeal to the old master's usual fans. He writes about the short story, the novels of Goethe, a Hindu swami he once met, three French writers who kept personal and controversial journals, and about the life and writings of Dr. Tillotson, a 17th century Archbishop of Canterbury. A doubtful lot, on the face of it, but Maugham has the easy knack of wringing interest out of all of them. Virtually all of his information is from other books (which he freely admits...