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Dean Ford, who had Brinton as an advisor for his Ph.D. thesis, felt that the man was best in small tutorial groups, and that in these situations Brinton retained an informal yet critical style. As one colleague put it: "Crane Brinton, besides having a lively and wide ranging mind, was one of the kindest and most generous men I have ever known. He viewed the world with a genial skeptcism that permitted him to judge with humane indulgence the foibles of his fellow...
...WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 2:15-3:45 p.m.). Floyd Patterson challenges Jimmy Ellis for the World Boxing Association's version of the heavyweight championship. Live from Stockholm via satellite. Taped events from the U.S. Olympic Track and Field Trials round out the program...
...voluptuous Renoir Bather, and a darkly rich, superbly foreshortened Degas Girl on a Cushion. For any other collection, these 16 would be more than enough, but the adjoining dining room is fairly aglow with the Kreegers' most spectacular collection-within-a-collection. Eight mistily magnetic Monets offer a wide range of insights into the painter's gifts, from the crisp precision of an 1881 Varengeville to the moist verdure of a late (1906-16) Water Lilies...
...There is a gross misstatement of fact in your story dealing with the efforts of a coalition of unions to try to force the Campbell Soup Co. into company-wide bargaining [Aug. 23]. You state: "Behind the demand is the burgeoning drive by A.F.L.-C.I.O. Organizer Stephen Harris to duplicate company-wide contracts that he won from the Union Carbide Corp. and the copper industry." This statement is as far from the true facts of the situation as it could possibly be. In 1966 and 1967, the Industrial Union Department of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. led a coalition bargaining drive against...
...balloting got under way and moved him ever closer to the nomination. The total mounted toward the needed 1,312. "Oregon is zilch," said Humphrey; his fellow Minnesotan, Senator Eugene McCarthy, had won its 35 votes in the May primary. Humphrey leaned forward expectantly, then broke into a wide grin as Pennsylvania put him over the top with 103¾ votes. "Pennsylvania started it and Pennsylvania put us over!" said the jubilant Humphrey, recalling that the state's show of support last spring gave him an all but unbeatable lead...