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...from rebellious young woman, clamoring for education, to the more familiar image of Jewish grandmother, gloating over snapshots of her grandchildren, seems complete. But no, not quite-many of these women, free at last, go back to school. Anuta Sharrow was the oldest student at Chicago Musical College; Ida Richter began to write novels; Katya Govsky earned a certificate to teach adult education. For some, it seems to be too late. "I was always happy," concludes Mollie Linker. "But if I would have had an education, with my mind, if I had taken the time, I probably would turn...
Rating highest on the Richter scale are Penn, Washington and Wisconsin, who will go for Crimson blood in San Diego Crew Classic next week. Penn, which Harvard has traditionally treated to annual trouncing, will be especially venemous owing to the new spirit of its excellent freshman crew, which won the Eastern Sprints last year...
...break occurred along a generally east-west line known as the Motagua Fault and measured 7.5 on the Richter seismological scale (the 1972 quake that leveled much of Managua, Nicaragua measured 6.3). The sudden movement may have answered a question that has been bothering geophysicists for years. Earth scientists have never been sure just where the Guatemalan section of the boundary between the North American and Caribbean plates lies. Now they have an idea...
Rescue efforts were further slowed last Friday when the country was whiplashed by an afterquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale. Both quakes also rocked neighboring Honduras, El Salvador and parts of Mexico, but no deaths were reported there...
Died. Hans Richter, 87, painter, film maker and one of the originators of the Dada movement in art; in Locarno, Switzerland. While many of Richter's revolutionary friends, such as Painters Max Ernst and Marcel Du-champ and Sculptor Hans Arp settled into more traditional art forms, Richter gave up his easel for Dadaist and Surrealist film making. He made his first film, Rhythm 21, in 1921 and his best, Dreams That Money Can Buy, in 1947. In 1941 Richter fled Nazi Germany and came to New York, where he taught cinema for many years. In 1965 he published...