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...YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERTS (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). In the third concert for the season, Leonard Bernstein presents three new young soloists: a 14-year-old cellist, Lawrence Foster, and 17-year-old identical twins Martin and Steven Vann in a piano duet...
...Development Support) estimated that 82% of the population of 5.3 million lived in secure hamlets, some 13% in contested hamlets and only a scant 5% under hardcore Viet Cong hegemony. "We're still in a state of flux concerning recent losses or gains," says CORDS Deputy John P. Vann. "We're not sure what resulted from drawing in over 6,000 R.D. cadre and some of the regional and popular forces to province and district towns." But the estimates are that Communist real estate and population gains will be small in III Corps. Civilian casualties were also...
Among Yale's 25 Sterling Professors* are Historian C. Vann Woodward and French Literary Critic Henri Peyre. The State University of New York landed Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Chen Ning Yang for a state-subsidized $100,-000 Albert Einstein Chair in Science. Endowments frequently support visiting professorships, such as one at the City College of New York, named after C.C.N.Y. President Buell G. Gallagher, which this year is held by Indian Sitarist Ravi Shankar...
...importance of thorough documentation, pave the way for the current use of computers to analyze voting patterns and population shifts. But electronic aids can carry a historian only so far. "Some of the profoundest problems of history are not amenable to statistical analysis," says Yale's C. Vann Woodward, historian of the American South. "Everything still must be digested by one man sitting at his desk." And that man, argues Schlesinger, is the better historian for having got up from the desk occasionally. He concedes that participation and partisanship have their pitfalls. "To act is, in many cases...
...Still, in the past decade the Negro has gained more than in the whole century before, and in the past year, perhaps more than in the whole decade before. Today, fundamental resistance to Negro civil rights is dead or dying. Compared to the First Reconstruction, says Southern Historian C. Vann Woodward, "the Second Reconstruction is assuming the proportions of a galloping revolution." Roy Wilkins, N.A.A.C.P. executive director, adds: "We've already won. I don't mean we're all through. Sometimes a war isn't ended for years after the turning point. What I mean...