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...Jahsman will man the top two strings at tackle, but none have any real varsity experience. Junior Frank Veteran, who played on the JV squad last year, may team with Ferullo at guard, but behind them, there is precious little depth. Waldstein, a junior, will start at center, with Skip Starck as backup...

Author: By John L. Powers, | Title: Harvard Football After Last Year, Nowhere to Go but Up | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...handles senior classes-usually results in the absorption of the black schools by the white, eliminating not only the black institutions but their records of athletic and scholastic achievement. Some blacks fear studying under white teachers. "They grade differently," says Tanya Puckett, a Nashville, Tenn., senior. "Negro teachers will skip over a chapter and not hold you responsible for it. With white teachers, if you miss a test, that's it. I'm afraid I might not graduate." Whites taking over a previously black school in Thibodaux, La., promptly painted over murals that showed Booker T. Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Desegregation: The South's Tense Truce | 9/14/1970 | See Source »

Born in Manhattan to a Polish immigrant couple in 1905, he used to skip high school classes to spend the day at the Metropolitan Museum. As a student at the Art Students League, he became aware of the dilemma that Malevich and Mondrian had left their successors: where to go from white on white and skin-and-bones geometry? "Painting is finished, we should all give it up," he told a friend, Painter Adolph Gottlieb. World War II added a new dimension to his personal crisis. "How can you continue painting guys playing the fiddle, flowers and sweetness when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Most with the Least | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...decision could increase court congestion by turning preliminary hearings into minor trials. It could also have the opposite effect. To avoid exposing their cases, prosecutors could in many cases skip preliminary hearings entirely, taking their cases directly to a grand jury, which could then issue an indictment and immediately launch a trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: A Backlog for Lawyers | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

Everyone down to the lowliest footman, maid-in-waiting, and soldier merrts praise for the astonishing presion with which the whole company goes through its paces. And this extends to the stage-crew too. As the scenes skip about from Roussillon to Paris to Florence to Marseilles, Marsha Eck's backdrops and panels rise and fall swiftly without noise or jerkiness, and her set-pieces roll in from the sides with split-second timing. I cannot recall the last time I saw a complex production with such impeccably well-oiled mechanics. If you don't mind an All's Well...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: AMERICAN SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: I 'All's Well That Ends Well' in Rare Revival | 7/2/1970 | See Source »

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