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Recently, the "meritocracy" zealots have been beating a hasty retreat from their steadfast position of guardians of America's brain trust and true colors. This withdrawal has been hastened by the introduction of a new and unpredicted factor in the equation: The increase in Asian-American students. Victims of discrimination in America themselves. Asian-American citizens and residents have remained rather quiet during the Civil Rights struggle. However, as their numbers and economic circumstances have improved in the U.S. they have moved in take advantage of the doors opened by the Civil Rights movement. While there have always been many...
Tiny Thistle, Utah, a historic railroading town 60 miles south of Salt Lake City, was once considered an idyllic mountain retreat. No longer. Unglued by record spring rains, a 125-ft. wall of muddy earth swept into nearby Spanish Fork Canyon two weeks ago, backing up the small Spanish Fork River for two miles and creating a natural lake, 50 to 80 ft. deep, that has swallowed up the hapless hamlet. Residents of the town's 22 homes fled, and no lives were lost. But despite attempts to drain the new lake, the water has continued to rise...
According to Stern, one volume is devoted to Hitler's account of the 1941 secret mission by his deputy Rudolf Hess to Britain to try to persuade the British to sign a peace agreement. Other entries deal with the 1940 British retreat at Dunkirk and the amorous activities of Chief Propagandist Josef Goebbels...
...Vierra's grounder to the right side hit the advancing DiCesare. It was an automatic single for Vierra, but DiCesare became the second out of the inning, and Allard--because the ball was automatically ruled dead when it hit DiCesare--had to retreat to third. Center fielder Bruce Weller's ground out left the bases loaded...
...Boston Symphony. The patrician Boston Symphony is the quintessential major orchestra: old (101) and wealthy, with a comfortable home in the acoustically excellent Symphony Hall and a bucolic summer retreat at Tanglewood, in the Berkshires. A11 this would not be worth much, though, if the orchestra did not play so consistently well: under music directors as disparate in taste and talents as Serge Koussevitzky, Charles Munch, Erich Leinsdorf and, now, Seiji Ozawa, 47, it has repeatedly demonstrated its ability to adapt to almost any type of music conductorial style. Boston's full strings, warm winds and elegant brass...