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...rhythm of Commencement in the spring of 1970 was broken by the appearance of a group of community activists seeking to disrupt the normally staid proceedings, to draw attention to Harvard's expansion in the Riverside area of Cambridge. Led by Saundra Graham--later elected a city councilor--the "counter-commencement" group was allowed to speak its piece after last minute behind-the-scene bargaining...
Founded in 1924, Saturday Review flourished in the '50s and '60s as a staid journal of politics and literature under longtime Editor Norman Cousins. In 1971 it was sold to entrepreneurs Nicolas Charney and John Veronis, who turned the magazine into four separate monthlies on arts, education, science and society. The new format was confusing to readers and financially ruinous. Saturday Review went bankrupt in 1973, and Cousins came to the rescue. He ran it for the next four years and converted it to a fortnightly. Under Tucker, the magazine added more reportage and brighter graphics...
...band of horns, drums and a guitar beat out religious tunes. Two lines of teen-age girls in green swayed, sang and clapped their hands joyously. Swept up by the infectious rhythms, everyone, including the press, began to dance, even the veteran diplomatic correspondent of Italy's staid Corriere della Sera. When John Paul reached the green lines, he suddenly began to dance too, his big frame swaying back and forth to the rhythmic beat, his face beaming...
Those driving personal habits, however, created problems in the staid banking community. Abboud became infamous for his humiliating chastisements of senior officials in front of their subordinates, and FORTUNE this spring named him one of the ten toughest bosses in the U.S. Some 200 bank executives left First Chicago during Abboud's tenure. One described him as "perverse, willful, abusive, inconsiderate and erratic." After one disgruntled banker resigned, Abboud said to him: "If you are leaving town, I'd like to buy your house...
Characters here are, as an airport sign reads, "Passengers in Transit," moving through emotions alone, along intersecting orbits in mechanical mystery. When staid government official Christian Thrale meets orphan Grace Bell at the symphony, two strangers' historical curves come together and fall into relation...