Word: sessions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Park Thomson, former secretary to retired House Speaker Carl Albert, to testify for five hours before a closed session of the committee. Clearly, Jaworski was determined to get to the bottom of the scandal, which could implicate scores of present and former Congressmen as well as the South Korean government...
...kids in his family. At age 28, Haywood is trying to impart some "good values" to children in Manhattan's poor neighborhoods. His method? A basketball clinic where he teaches boys and girls aged ten to 17 about fair play on and off the court. At a session at a local playground, Haywood paused between games to hear his young players talk about their problems. He also passed out advice, urging his listeners to learn reading and writing and to be good citizens. Says Haywood: "These kids are living in an infested society of drugs, and they need...
...Records with his guitar, two summers before, plunked down $4 to sing a couple of tunes to his mother, Gladys, and left carrying a 10-in. acetate for her birthday present. Sun Secretary Marion Keisker heard a mean, lowdown sweetness in the baritone voice, made a tape of the session and played it back later for her boss, Sam Phillips. He had been looking for a "black sound inside a white boy" to make Sun Records a national mark way beyond Memphis...
...collected plays. A longtime (1949-72) professor at New York University, where he held the Henry James Chair of English and American Letters, Edel is now teaching in a post-retirement position at the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. But he journeyed to Dartmouth for the summer session, a regular academic term in the college's new full-year calendar, for a special purpose: to inaugurate the Vernon Visiting Professorship of Biography, the only chair in the country devoted exclusively to biography. TIME Education Editor Annalyn Swan attended the class and reported...
...Senior Peter Tagge. An ardent sailor, Tagge is writing for his course project a profile of round-the-world Sailor Robin Knox-Johnston. Diane Kilpatrick, a psychologist at Dartmouth's student health center, was also drawn by Edel's analytic method. When Edel proved at the first session to be "a fascinating storyteller," she juggled her schedule so that she could audit the course and has attended "religiously" ever since...