Word: roundings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...class. Many of the members of the class had their careers interrupted and others were forced into the "speed up" program taking classes year round and graduating as early as possible. "The main object was to get your degree and get out as soon as possible," said Sam Leland. "The friendships were formed were formed in our freshman and sophomore years." For those who were in the speed up the last years of college life were warped beyond recognition. Most of the student organizations folded or were transformed into war college institutions. The >Lampoon ceased publication, the CRIMSON was turned...
Calkins tells a semi-plausible story about his entry into the Corporation, claiming that it was mostly an accident. He says he became an Exeter Trustee because Exeter decided it needed a Midwesterner to round out its board. He met fellow Trustee Thomas Lamont, who was also a Corporation member. Lamont groomed him for service in the Associated Harvard Alumni, and eventually Calkins became a Midwestern representative on the Overseers' Board. Calkins winds up his story by saying that when Lamont died, he was an old friend who was ready as successor...
...ROUND UP and THE RED AND THE WHITE are handsomely pictorial films by Hungary's Miklos Jancso. Both dwell on the bitterness of war and demonstrate a loathing for its perpetrators...
Transcendent Issue. In the initial election round April 1, fully 74% of the electorate went for Yorty's opponents. Bradley led the field of 14 with 42%, a remarkable showing for a black candidate in a city where Negroes constitute less than one-fifth of the population. But Democrat Bradley is no insular ghetto politician. A lawyer and retired police lieutenant who had bootstrapped himself out of poverty (as youngsters, he and a brother took turns with their single suit), Bradley organized what he called a "coalition of conscience." It included blacks, Mexican-Americans, white liberal Democrats and independents...
...Force (where he learned to play the guitar to combat boredom), he headed for Memphis, where he met two auto mechanics who were also pretty good musicians. With Luther Perkins and Marshall Grant, he formed a trio-"Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two"-and began the round of playing free-for-alls at church socials, schools, county fairs and charity bazaars. "Finally somebody got the bright idea of auditioning," Cash recalls. The trio trooped off to Sun Records in Nashville and sang a little ditty of Johnny's called Cry, Cry, Cry. Within a matter of weeks...