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Tension still exists at the Law School, and there is a tendency to avoid the explosive issue of race. But as one of the Law School professors puts it, "There's a real basis for dialogue here. Just scratch the surface, and you find people directly caught up in the most important problem of this century...
...held down the first chair in Philadelphia and Chicago, won the label "Toscanini's third hand" during the 15 years he played under the great Italian at the NBC Symphony. He moved to Detroit in 1952, where he helped rebuild the orchestra from scratch. A patriarch in baggy pants and sports shirts, Mischakoff is a demanding but amicable leader, prides himself on his collection of shredded manuscripts and broken batons cast aside by the terrible-tempered Toscanini...
...political tempo is accelerating. Last week, the pressure of politics had one very obvious effect: Gov. John A. Volpe abandoned his administration's long-standing, but unpopular, position favoring the Brook-line-Elm St. route for the Inner Belt through Cambridge. Volpe pledged he would "start from scratch" in selecting a path for the highway...
...Radcliffe Field House behind Holmes Hall. There they heard Diane K. McGuire, landscape-architect for the entire project, speak of deep-planted daffodils, tulips with predictably Dutch names, and blue chinadoxes which bloom, T.S. Eliot notwithstanding, in earliest April. With spoons and spades they went off to scratch the ground...
...Peking could be believed, Mao's thought could, in fact, do just about anything-even provide the inspiration for the design of a new automobile. According to a Peking report, six "pacesetters" in an auto factory in Changchum, 350 miles northeast of Peking, testified that they "started from scratch" to produce a new car, with Mao's thought as the "guiding principle." What they aspired to, they proudly proclaimed, "was proletarian art, not an imitation of foreign models...