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Slavic 162b. Survey of Polish literature...
...open towns--New Orleans, Kansas City-- where whorehouses and gambling dens needed "hot music" to keep the customers fired-up and spending. So it's not surprising that jazz musicians have always been obsessed with "paying dues," the tradition of enduring hardships and degrading work conditions in order to polish and purify their art. Much has been written about the handful of jazzmen who "came up through the tradition" to achieve international celebrity and artistic and financial success: Louis Armstong and Duke Ellington occupy a warm corner in our popular mythology. But jazz, financially speaking, is a marginal music...
Along with Jews upset over Carter's handling of a United Nations vote on West Bank settlements, there was also "the vote upstate, the vote in Polish wards, the vote among Catholics." And, on the same day, there was the vote in Connecticut. "There are two main constituencies, Catholics and Yankees. Kennedy had not been doing well with those groups, but in Connecticut he ran phenomenally--he won almost every precinct in New Haven," Orren said...
...offer them is a chance to see the world." Surkien fought back tears as he spoke: he had just learned that 14 members of a U.S. amateur boxing team, flying from New York City to matches in Cracow and Katowice, had died in the crash of a Polish IL-62 jetliner near Warsaw's Okecie Airport. The disaster, which took the lives of all 77 passengers and ten crew members, was the worst air crash in Poland's history...
DIED. Sheldon Glueck, 83, Polish-born Harvard law professor and criminologist; in Cambridge, Mass. Glueck and his wife Eleanor, who also taught at Harvard, developed "social prediction tables" for determining the delinquency potential of youths. They used 40 factors-including maternal affection, family cohesiveness, even body type-to pinpoint future troublemakers as early as age six. Though the technique was criticized because it could be used to prejudge young people, tests showed it to be highly reliable...