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...laborer who served time in the Illinois state penitentiary. His mother left home when he was eight. At San Jose State young Edwards starred in basketball. But the trappings of racism he found in fraternities, student housing, the faculty and staff radicalized him. By 1967 he was a Black Panther urging fellow black athletes to boycott white-sponsored events, including the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. At Cornell, where he earned a doctorate, Edwards was a mediator in an armed ) revolt by blacks on campus. Now a sports sociology professor at University of California, Berkeley, and a consultant...
Blake Edwards was once one of the great American film makers. He gained his greatest credit, perhaps, for his astute direction of Audrey Hepburn in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffanys. His series of Pink Panther movies with the late Peter Sellers is also memorable for providing some of the greatest moments of slapstick comedy in American cinematic history...
...conference on women's liberation, Kate Millett gave a landmark speech on "Sexual Politics" that was the germ of her seminal 1970 book. However, exponents of such views were widely derided as "bra burners." Even in the antiwar and civil rights movements, women were relegated to subordinate roles. Black Panther leader Stokely Carmichael went as far as to say that "the only position for women in the Movement is prone." Some things refused to change...
Fire Came to the Earth People (St. Martin's Press; $9.95) speaks of another kind of legend. The moon goddess Mawu, say the West Africans, wanted to keep fire for herself. The lion, panther, elephant and antelope vainly tried to persuade her to part with the secret. Then the chameleon had an idea. Straw was gathered and given to the tortoise. He sneaked it up to the sacred flame. The glowing embers were gathered under his shell and valorously brought home, safe forever from the jealousy of Mawu. The secret of Susan L. Roth's retelling lies in the strong...
Harvard midfielder Robert Griffith opened the flood gates with a shot over the middle with 10 minutes left in the half. David Kramer followed, driving from midfield before releasing a shot from 30 feet which flew past Panther goalie Jim Cheeseman with six minutes remaining. Steve Lux and Kramer added goals before the half expired...