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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...never approached the power or political skill of James Michael Curley, but it is obvious the former Boston mayor is Vellucci's role model. Curley perfected the urban ethnic style of politics that some call "urban populism," and Vellucci has been an apt pupil and improviser...

Author: By Michael Kendall, | Title: An Old-Fashioned Operator | 11/7/1977 | See Source »

DADDY WARBUCKS KNEW how to play the game, Just let anybody mess around with his little orphan, Annie--Asian smuuglers, Russian spies out to topple the free world, mad opthamologists aiming to give her a pupil transplant--and the fun would start. Before Sandy could even "Arf," Daddy would be on the scene in his 200-foot yacht, puffing on a dark Havana as he watched Punjab and the Asp contrive a properly nasty comicstrip zoom for the malefactors. It was a fun little game, and Daddy played it just right, cool and cunning and with just the faintest suggestion...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: The Games People Play | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Harvard from Fordham next year, says he realizes recruiting is not his job. "The committee made it quite clear it's their responsibility to do that end of it," he notes. Bernal, however, has already had a stroke of luck: the admissions committee last month accepted his star pupil, Robert W. Hackett '81--an Olympic silver medalist--a month after notifying the rest of the incoming freshmen...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: Body-hunting at Harvard | 6/16/1977 | See Source »

...least restrictive educational environment" by September 1978. Schools, already strapped financially, estimate that it costs $2,800 a year to educate each handicapped child, compared with $1,400 for a normal student. Meanwhile, under existing allocations, the Federal Government will underwrite only 5% of the cost of each handicapped pupil's education in 1978; it will slowly increase that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: D-Day for the Disabled | 5/30/1977 | See Source »

Dance is hardly a new phenomenon at the University. Radcliffe has offered courses in dance since the 1940s. Claire Mallardi, a former pupil of Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham, has headed the program since 1965, supervising the production of one performance each year...

Author: By Jurretta J. Heckscher, | Title: Motion in a Sedentary Society | 5/5/1977 | See Source »

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