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Among today's rich blend of young violin virtuosos, it would take a mouthful as well as an earful to match the likes of Itzhak Perlman, 21, Young Uck Kim, 19, and Pinchas Zuckerman, 18. Their close friend and former classmate scores high on all counts. His name is James Oliver Buswell...
...Alabama, Frank Rose has given his state good reason for pride. He has upgraded the faculty, brought in tens of millions of dollars in research money, sharply expanded the graduate departments-and helped build national-championship football teams to boot. Until recently, he has even managed, with a blend of geniality and tact, to get along with a state legislature normally suspicious of higher education. No longer. Last week he seemed on the verge of resignation after an angry struggle with legislators over the university's right to air unpopular opinions...
...Students on a 4-to-12 p.m. work shift, for example, are permitted to come to classes from around 10 in the morning till 2 in the afternoon. They are given the regular amount of classwork but granted exemptions from gym and study periods. Some students are allowed to blend daytime class and work schedules, alternating one week on a job with a week of classes. For those in desperate money trouble, there is a loan fund; students can borrow up to $50 on their signature alone. Rather than lose face with Becker, the vast majority pay their debts...
WHEN one has been away from Cambridge even for a little while, as we all have been, one forgets that curious blend of intelligence, sensitivity, and inaccuracy which the CRIMSON manages so often to display. Mr. James Lardner's article (February 25) on the Woodrow Wilson School has reminded us of it. Some of its contentions seem to us to be so far from the mark that in the interests of objectivity and good journalism we should like to offer some observations in correction...
...Suit. The paper that helps make it all possible is Kimberly-Stevens' Kaycel, a tough blend of 93% cellulose and 7% nylon which is fire resistant unless washed. So great has been the demand that the company has had to put all Kaycel customers on rations; since there is not enough to go around, manufacturers are turning to Du Font's Ree-may, a "spunbonded" polyester, and are also using Kendall's Webril, a nonwoven rayon. Kaycel marketing experts calculate current expenditures for disposable goods made from Kaycel and similar materials at $50 million per year, think...