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...more recent times, four thousand students blocked traffic for 10 days in May 1960 in protest of President Pusey's proposal to print diplomas in English instead of the traditional Latin. Their slogan "Latin si, Pusey, no." And the SDS takeover of University Hall in 1969 resulted in the controversial expulsion of several of the protestors...
...sounded as if he'd just gone down to the corner for five minutes." Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger received a call from his Italian counterpart, Lelio Lagorio, who speaks little English. Weinberger, who speaks little Italian, broke the language barrier with an exultant "Magnifico!" Answered Lagorio happily: "Si! Si!" In Dozier's home town, Arcadia, Fla., (pop. 6,047), townspeople draped century-old oaks with yellow ribbons and declared a day of celebration in honor of their native...
Smack in the center of the red-and-white-striped big top, Arlene Yaple, 63, surveys her domain: prize pumpkins, homemade brownies, dried cornstalks, okra and an American flag crafted of apples and grapes. Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by, while curious passers-by gape at a 325-lb. squash lying near Yaple's feet. Above the huge oval ring where the plump, gray-haired woman is sitting hangs a carefully lettered wooden sign that reads, "Arlene Yaple: for 35 years superintendent of Granges and Big Top displays. Danbury...
Scene 2 takes place two weeks later in New York City. A man posing as a Princeton University professor offers the Discorsi and three other books to a New York bookseller for SI 1,000. Suspicious that such a rare book should just appear like that, the bookseller contacts authorities. Then, donning a bulletproof vest, he goes to lunch with the mysterious professor at the Princeton Club, ostensibly to consummate the deal. At the conclusion of the sale, undercover agents arrest Greek-born John Papanastassiou, 34, a Ph.D. candidate at Columbia University. At his Riverside Drive apartment, police cart...
...took two years of appeals by her husband, Pianist Leone Magiera, her coach and accompanist, to persuade her to resume her career. "Later, I am singing with La Scala, Covent Garden, Paris, Vienna, and it is difficult to come to America, I am so busy. Now I try, come si dice, to do a little slalom." She makes a wavy motion with one hand, skirting imaginary obstacles to illustrate the difficulty of fitting the U.S. into her European schedule. But she will: a Bohème in Houston and a Romeo et Juliette in Chicago later this year, Mascagni...