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...Ford II's elder daughter set up her own Seventh Avenue business and at about the same time started doing a little writing. The result: Charlotte Ford's Book of Modern Manners, scheduled for publication next spring. "It's completely different from Emily Post and Amy Vanderbilt, says Ford, 37. The book gives tips for roommates of the opposite sex ("They should split the rent and put both their names on the mailbox"), and advice to a divorcee about her wedding ring ("Put it away for a year or so. It might start looking good...
...addition to his poetry, Brutus was banned, jailed and finally exiled because he led the struggle to keep South Africa's all-white teams out of the Olympics. Most recently, he organized the demonstrations against South Africa's participation in the Davis Cup tournaments at Vanderbilt University...
...conservatory was not always such a garden of delights. It was completed in 1902 with Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Morgan money. But like the neighboring streets in The Bronx, it eventually fell victim to the city's financial woes. By the '60s, hundreds of the 17,000 glass panes had been replaced with plywood. Kids had shattered the crystal casements with bricks and BB guns and carved their initials into the trunks of the cacti. When the steam mains broke down along with the ventilation and heating systems, most of the rarer and more temperamental plants died...
While the U.S. tennis team was busy routing the South Africans this weekend in the Davis Cup competition at Vanderbilt University, thousands of people marched through the streets protesting U.S. cooperation with apartheid...
After marches through downtown Nashville Friday and Saturday, protesters set up picket lines outside the Vanderbilt gym where the matches took place...