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...MASSACHUSETTS politician once remarked that Harvard makes a very good landmark from which to note the progress of the surrounding institutions. David Henshaw was speaking in 1836; despite ostentatious efforts by Harvard administrators in recent years to change this public image, Henshaw's words are true today. Oddly enough, one of the surrounding institutions that has conspicuously outdistanced Harvard of late is the U.S. government. Last June the Department of Health, Education and Welfare published a set of proposed regulations for the implementation of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which forbids discrimination on the basis...
...antics and accomplishments of its guests-celebrated, obscure or hovering somewhere between -have become a part of New York City's artistic lore, and so has the eleven-story Chelsea itself. Its fading elegance was saved from destruction when it was designated an official city landmark...
Charlotte seemed an appropriate spot for the Northerners to visit. It became a landmark in school desegregation in 1970, when a federal judge ordered crosstown busing, which originally affected about one-fourth of the district's 75,000 pupils (some 46,000 out of 77,300 students now take a bus to school, half of them bused for desegregation). But busing was no more popular in Charlotte than it is in Boston. In fact, only four days before the Boston contingent arrived, racial fighting forced the closing of one of the district schools, Olympic High. Seven students were arrested...
...choice need not be made if both law officials and journalists work at sensible accommodations. Most of the prejudicial information leaked to the press before a trial comes from police officers, prosecutors, wardens, lawyers and even judges themselves. In 1966 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Paul Reardon's landmark study on pre-trial publicity recommended a series of guidelines for lawyers and law officers, forbidding attorneys, for example, to release any opinion or information on a pending case that might interfere with a fair trial, including the defendant's previous record or the existence or content of confessions...
Originally, it was a typically all-star Diaghilev collaboration. The score, based on Pergolesi themes, is landmark Stravinsky-his first explorative venture into neoclassicism. Pablo Picasso designed the sets and costumes, and the choreography was by Leonide Massine, who succeeded Nijinsky as Diaghilev's premier danseur. Massine, now 78, danced the title role at the Paris opening, and he was on hand to help Jeffrey reconstruct the work...