Word: sarasota
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week in Sarasota, Fla., a new college called New College starts its first classes, joining the 80 senior colleges founded since World War II that range in fame from Brandeis near Boston down to Yampa Valley College in Steamboat Springs, Colo. The aim of New College is to make Spanish moss the prestige equivalent of New England ivy, and the school starts out with $11 million in cash assets, raised in fund drives, and 115 acres of landscaped bayfront property...
Died. Jon Corbino, 59, U.S. painter, a Sicilian-born romantic realist who specialized in turbulent canvases of full-blown nudes and writhing horses caught in shipwrecks and floods, scoffing at abstract artists for their attempt "to achieve a literature with a language none but they understand"; of cancer; in Sarasota...
...just seemed to drift into science," has built everything from a cloud chamber to a solar furnace to an electron accelerator. For a hobby he builds fountains, is now on his ninth. He studies with stereo earphones whispering light classical music to him. He will attend New College in Sarasota, Fla., move on to postgraduate research in physics. > Jacquelyn Faye Evans of Little Rock, Ark., made her achievements (straight A's) amid notably tense circumstances as one of the few Negro students to enter and stay at Little Rock's Hall High School after it was integrated...
...gall. Some punk just walked up and stole this 1963 Ford station wagon, not even considering who the owner was. So Mickey Spillane, 45, had to report the theft to the Sarasota, Fla., cops. Moped he defensively: "I know what you're going to say: 'Go find it yourself.' " Gone with the car were his wife's engagement and wedding rings, his wallet, and the only manuscript of his new book, The Body Lovers. The manuscript he didn't mind. "That just means I've got to sit down and do three more days...
...RICHARD O. WELLS Sarasota...