Word: richmond
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Berman left Harvard to teach at Eartham College in Richmond, Indiana. He left Eartham in 1966 and went to New York where he taught part-time at Hunter College while working intensively at the piano. In the fall of 1967 he came back to Harvard where he continues teaching and performing...
After decades of male domination, women's tennis was getting nowhere. That was the contention of ten of the world's top women players who staged the Virginia Slims Invitational in Richmond, Va., to open the first professional tennis tour ever organized exclusively for women. It was the first attempt to equalize the purses, publicity and playing conditions long enjoyed by the men players and long denied the women. "You've heard of Women's Lib," says one of the tour's promoters. "This is Women...
...Jean King. "Maybe not as much muscle and power, but girls use a lot more tactics. That's why people who play on the local level relate to us more than they do to a Rod Laver or a Pancho Gonzalez. Our game is more like theirs." The Richmond tournament last month, which Mrs. King won with a final-round 6-3, 6-3 victory over Nancy Richey, was sold out before it opened. And with the first women-only tour booked for seven cities and $82,500 in prize money in the first two months of 1971, Billie...
...class of 1971 were elected last week to the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa: Paul B. Armstrong of Eliot House and Allentown, Pa.; Stephen H. Bandeian of Lowell House and Holyoke; Russell L. Barsh of Leverett House and New York; Lawrence R. Barusch of Eliot House and Richmond, Calif.; Steven M. Berzin of Leverett House and Paris, France...
...1920s and 1930s. I accepted segregation as a way of life. But I've come a long way. Very few of us, I suspect, would like to have our passions and profundities at age 28 thrust in our faces at 50." After he became editor of the Richmond News Leader (he was 30), Kilpatrick became an effective spokesman for Southern conservatism. His editorials were rousing pieces that got him denounced at least once in almost every General Assembly. Says he: "I counted the day lost when nobody denounced...