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...beginning to take a new look at the whole situation. These moderates are the businessmen who are achieving progressive integration in such cities more local political influence. The group also includes Congressmen from the old Confederacy who feel legislation is inevitable and are ready to vote for a fairly stiff civil rights bill, even if it endangers their political careers...
Excursioning to the Outer Hebrides with classmates from Scotland's stiff-upper-lip Gordonstoun School, bonnie Prince Charles, 14, stepped up to the bar of the Crown Hotel, Stornoway, manfully plunked down two and sixpence for a cherry brandy. It was grand fun until his royal bodyguard collared him, shooed him off to join the boys for dinner and a movie (It Happened in Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield). But since Scottish law sets 18 as the legal drinking age, that spot of brandy soon splashed into headlines, and Buckingham Palace-perhaps mindful that Britannia has waived the rules...
...years or so to keep academe from feeling too stodgy. Last week, at graduation, Columbia showed its new doctoral dress. Slate grey with a facing of black velvet replaces the black that is customary in the U.S. A four-cornered soft tarn with a gold tassel replaces the stiff mortarboard. The university thoughtfully advised academic plumage-watchers to note the border of the hood for "the color indicating the discipline to which the degree pertains: arts and letters, including journalism, white; theology, scarlet; law, purple; medicine, green; philosophy, dark blue; science, yellow; architecture and the fine arts, brown; music, pink...
Crimson entries will probably win five events. Sprint ace Aggrey Awori should win both the 100 and 220 yard dashes, but he will face stiff competition in the latter from Oxford's Adrian Metcalfe, a former Olympian. Blodgett will probably edge Awori and Hank Hatch in the high and low hurdles, but Awori could easily win the broad jump if he is not too tired...
...wife Madeleine. To the delight of the admiring audience, the Suite turned out to be a "chance" work, in which all seven players were free to find their own tempos and moods while Milhaud sat by in his wheelchair to draw them into occasional togetherness with a stiff little sweep of his baton...