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Stein entered the securities business in a roundabout way. Born in Brooklyn to parents in what he calls "less than affluent circumstances," he moved to Manhattan as a child and grew up in a flat over the Stage Delicatessen on Seventh Avenue. At the age of five he began to practice the violin and almost took up a career as a musician. His formal schooling was a sometime thing: he spent eight to ten hours a day playing the violin and three hours a week with a tutor who came to the Stein apartment. "I learned a little math...
...terms of the theater is that U.S. stages are likely to carry a far higher traffic of classic Greek tragedies in the '70s than they ever have before. Some of these will be presented unmodified in fresh and colloquial translations. Others, like the new off-off-Broadway Roundabout Theater production of Oedipus, will alter the text in order to link it more closely to contemporary minds, sensibilities and responses. It is important to note that the playwright, Anthony Sloan, a pseudonym adopted by the Roundabout's artistic director, Gene Feist, has not tampered with the basic myth. Oedipus...
...Undaunted by popular pressure, Traynor once held that a 2 to 1 majority of California's voters had violated the U.S. Constitution. Out went the results of a 1964 referendum that entitled homeowners to sell or rent to anyone they pleased-a not-so-roundabout way of legalizing discrimination against Negroes. The Supreme Court affirmed Traynor's opinion, and in 1968 Congress outlawed racial discrimination in most U.S. housing. An earlier Traynor opinion may some day prove equally prescient for the nation. Almost seven years ago, he joined his court in ordering California school boards to take positive...
Setting Records. Barron came back to the family business by a roundabout route. When his father rebuffed his first effort to land a well-paying Hilton job, the young man began selling fresh fruit juice to Los Angeles dairies. The venture prospered and helped pave Barren's way into the family firm...
...where the message was broken down into its individual parts and routed to Mission Control in Houston. The astronauts' voices then traveled via ordinary telephone lines to radio and TV stations in New York for rebroadcast throughout the U.S. and the world. In one of the longest roundabout routes in the history of radio, Goldstone also relayed the voices back into space where they were picked up by Mike Collins in the command ship, some 70 miles above their source on the lunar surface. The reason for the round trip of nearly half a million miles: Collins...