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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from a gang of Braves led by pert Marge Laszlo, a nine-year Derby veteran who has had plastic surgery to remove the scars from a twice-broken nose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roller Skating: The Derby Rises Again | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Change as Ruin. In Torregreca, no undue sentimentality was shown on either side. By 1959, beneath her Poughkeepsie patina, Miss Cornelisen had become a five-year veteran of Southern Italy, working for a British charity called the Save the Children Fund, bent on setting up nursery centers in recalcitrant mountain villages. Torregreca was the intended scene of her greatest triumph: a new master center where teachers could be developed and experiments initiated. Thus trained and dedicated, she soon found that the town's aura of Romantic gilt was misleading...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Once There Was a Woman | 3/7/1969 | See Source »

Peter E. Gilbert '69, veteran of two past shows, proposed the reforms which were formally approved by Theatricals producer Paul J. Zofnass '69, graduate president Richard Chapin '45, and informally by "general consent" of the membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pudding Gains A Heart | 3/5/1969 | See Source »

...almost barred from the audition as too young. A huge, 250-lb. former weight lifter and lineman on the Wesleyan University football team, Cochran once wanted to become a minister. But singing in the Wesleyan Glee Club eventually diverted him to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Already a veteran of concert engagements and small roles at the Metropolitan Opera, his selections from Lohengrin and Walkure displayed massive power and a brilliantly glossy upper register. Every day, Cochran runs a mile and works out to preserve such Heldentenor traits as his 52-in. chest. "My ambition," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: Searching for Heroes | 2/28/1969 | See Source »

Secretary of Transportation John A. Volpe announced Monday the appoint-of Francis C. Turner, 40-year veteran of the Bureau of Public Roads, as the new Federal Highway Administrator...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Volpe Names New Highway Chief; Urban Planners Criticize Selection | 2/26/1969 | See Source »

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