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...article, "Why Harvard Still Ranks First," the author, a Radcliffe graduate, discounts the charge that the professors neglect students. "Any undergraduate with moderate pluck and a reasonable motive can see a professor in private just by knocking at his door at Littauer Center...
...probably the best fighter, pound for pound, in the world-the perfect picture of destruction with his 42-in. chest, 26-in. waist, and smoothly lethal muscles. He can hit as hard as a drop hammer, and his hands are quick enough to pluck a fly in midair. But Welterweight Emile Griffith, 26, is a reluctant champion...
...King decided to employ more dramatic tactics: he led 237 Negroes on a mass march to the courthouse, ignored the admonition of Selma's public safety director, Wilson Baker, who has been desperately trying to keep peace in the strife-stricken town and who kept running out to pluck at Parade Leader King's sleeve and saying: "This is a deliberate attempt to violate the city's parade ordinance. You know the law. You've been abiding by it for two weeks. You've had plenty of time to apply for a parade permit...
Wifely Support. The result is a kind of middlebrow Muzak played by a pair of highly skilled technicians. In novelty numbers they reach into the vitals of their pianos to strum, pluck and pound on the strings. In addition, they keep strips of Masonite, cardboard wedges, and sandpaper stashed in their pianos,' apply them to the strings to conjure up weird effects resembling gongs, castanets, drums, xylophone and harpsichord. Ferrante and Teicher have been playing in unison ever since they were sixyear-old prodigies studying together at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music After twelve years and repeated...
...BATTLE OF THE BULGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special on Hitler's last big effort to pluck victory from defeat 20 years...