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...newsletter is the work of John W. Fox Jr., director of the Graduate Office. At the request of Dean Glimp, Fox undertook the study in early October to determine the draft status of Harvard students...
Before Michigan Governor George Romney undertook a tour of the San Francisco slums recently, he first stopped for an indoctrination lecture at the Glide Memorial Methodist Church. When a much-liked cop in the city resigned, it was the Glide Foundation that gave him a farewell party-and more than 6,000 persons, ranging from the mayor to a motorcycle gang, showed up to celebrate. Almost any time a San Francisco derelict needs a handout, a prostitute needs an encouraging word, a busted hippie needs a pad, they can count on help from Glide...
Third, and most important to the League's purposes, the government apparently undertook the project in the interest of national prestige without considering how many people will be using the plane--and under what conditions--by the time it is operational. The government originally decided to build the SST in the early '60's as a direct response to British-French plans for the supersonic Concorde. The Concorde was viewed as an important challenge to American technological superiority, so important that solutions to basic questions about the SST were deferred so that no time would be lost in catching...
...soprano bumbled, the tenor went flat. Critics dismissed the score as long, repetitive and gnarled with outlandish complexities. The production closed after three nights, reopened the following year, folded again after four more performances. The talented 35-year-old composer set the work aside for eight years. Then he undertook extensive revisions. "Hardly a musical number has been left unchanged," he wrote to a Vienna newspaper, "ard more than half the opera was composed anew." Finally, in May 1814, Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera, Fidelia, was produced again at a different Vienna theater-and immediately became...
Graham had long tried to crash the Iron Curtain. In 1959, he undertook a five-day visit to Moscow but, as he tells it, "I was not allowed to preach because they said I didn't have a preaching visa." Last summer Poland denied him an entry visa after he had made tentative plans for crusades in Warsaw and Cracow. Last fall, while attending an evangelical congress in West Berlin, Graham accepted a preaching invitation from Yugoslavia's Baptist Federation. Surprisingly, the Tito Red regime did not object...