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Sally Weingart is a resident at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island. She is mentally retarded, or more precisely, a mongoloid. She is twenty-one years old, but her physical appearance and the circumstances in which she lives make her age immaterial. She is three and a half feet tall and weighs fifty-four pounds. For this and other reasons I think of her as a child, but her lack of teeth makes her look like an aged woman...
JAMES W. ROUSE, 59, probably the U.S.'s most innovative developer. Began as a Baltimore mortgage banker, pioneered in building shopping centers. In 1966 began constructing new city of Columbia, Md. (current pop. 32,000), between Washington and Baltimore. Has proposed a new town on Staten Island, and a regional plan for Hartford, Conn. "Development on a large scale is the only way that land use can be rationalized, that the environment can be handled sensitively, and that the social purposes of the community can be fulfilled...
...second year in its transplanted home. The festival, running from June 29 to July 8, brought together over 500 jazz musicians in a variety of settings and formats. From concerts in Harlem's Apollo Theater to Carnegie and Philharmonic Halls to the Hudson River boat rides on the Staten Island Ferry, the festival covered the city. Because of its magnitude and dimension, the phenomenon can not be wholly comprehended or fully interpreted. Despite the fact that jazz reached its apex in the forties and fifties and appears anachronistic to some, the Newport Jazz Festival remains one of the most significant...
...unqualified to judge the validity of his father's work. But he does share his father's idealism and social conscience. Peter has been a VISTA volunteer in Oregon, and worked with drug addicts in Boston for a while. He has been a journalist on Staten Island, N.Y., and, with two friends, even tried to start a daily newspaper in Manhattan. His book took six drafts and endless soul searches. "My father was afraid that his wives and children would write books about him, and they did," he says. "Talk about guilt." Guilty or not, this book...
...back as any one can remember, Magruder was a popular, even irresistible figure: outgoing, unpretentious, effervescent. A member of one of Maryland's oldest families, he grew up on Staten Island in New York City. As a teenager, he became a star tennis player. He graduated from Williams College with honors and married a Vassar beauty, Gail Nicholas, who shared his conservative political views. While working in a management-consultant firm in Chicago, he earned a master's degree in business administration...