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When John Misha Petkevich conective in the National Figure Skating Championships in Tulsa. Oklahoma, last month, he surprised the judges and spectators there by skating to "On the Waterfront" by Leonard Bernstein...
...Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs has 850 agents. They have not always been above temptation: 14 were indicted in 1969 for drug trafficking. U.S. Customs men are spread thin; in New York there are only 15 on the drug beat at the airports and on the entire waterfront. Says one: "This is like being a blind goalie in a hockey game...
...Will. Pozzuoli's plight is apparent everywhere. Walls and roofs have cracked. Dozens of buildings have been declared unsafe, including a hospital, a police station and the city hall. The waterfront has risen so far above the Bay of Naples that workmen finally had to chop away huge chunks of the stone wharf before ferries could conveniently dock again. The elegant Roman ruin known as the Temple of Serapide, standing in the midst of a small waterfront lagoon created by ancient sinking, now is higher out of the water than ever before in the memory of Pozzuolians. The hardest...
Much comment centered on Petkevich's performance and its acceptability to skating judges. Petkevitch, in sharp contrast to the rest of the men, skated to a contemporary version of the theme music from "On the Waterfront." His lace shirt, another departure from the norm, complemented his skating style...
Since 1960, Holland, who holds a Ph.D. in sociology, has been president of Virginia's Hampton Institute, a 201-acre waterfront campus occupied by 2,600 students-all but 250 of them black. Holland lives on the edge of the campus in a handsome white colonial house surrounded by magnolia trees. The living room is decorated with African masks and figures, Haitian paintings and other souvenirs of family travels to Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and even Sweden. Laura Holland is a good match for a college president. She has a master's in psychology from Radcliffe...