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...Seventeen Cornell students occupied the office of Frank H. T. Rhodes, president of Cornell, for three hours last week to protest the 15 to 18 per cent tuition increase proposed for next year...
Ironically, a $150 million gift to public TV and radio from Publisher Walter Annenberg (TV Guide, Seventeen), announced less than two weeks ago. will do little to bail out PBS. Annenberg's money, spread over 15 years, will finance the production of a PBS program of college-level courses, but it will not subsidize regular programming. Some Congressmen assume that Annenberg's gift will do precisely that, however, and are now asking public TV executives, "What do you need our money...
IMAGINE TELEVISION'S Mr. Rogers playing Rocky Balboa and you should get an idea of what Paul Newman is like as J.J. Murphy. Miscasting like this should be savored in all its hilarity. When Newman looks into the camera and says "I've been a cop for seventeen years and I've got every minute of this job written on my face" or adds "I could walk into Grand Central Station and everybody would know I'm a cop," he's almost too funny to bear. Yes, Newman has taken a lot of critical abuse in his twenty-five years...
...wanted the national championship for personal reasons, of course," he says. "I wouldn't be human if I didn't. But I also wanted it for the players and coaches and the loyal fans who have waited so long and been such good friends over the years." Seventeen years, to be exact...
Floriano DeArego, a New Bedford carpenter who arrived from St. Michael in the Azores eleven years ago at the age of seventeen, has a highly positive attitude toward the ceremony. "It makes me belong to the country. I don't want to live here and just say I'm in the United States. I want to be part of it." DeArego, who could speak only Portuguese when he came here, says he had no difficulty picking up English, "When you want to learn something you can learn it. I had to. I worked with American people...