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...VIRGIL PINKLEY Indio, Calif...
Opportunities Industrialization Center is a radical group working in Roxbury which trains Negroes in technical skills. Rev. Virgil Wood, Board Chairman of O.I.C. and one of its Boston founders said that Negroes have to determine which roles they must retain for themselves and which roles can be delegated to white workers. For now, Wood continued, the liberal white must accept the role determined for him--be it supportive or advisory...
...physical strength a man peaks at 21 and plateaus to the late 60s, the period when degenerative diseases stalk. The arduous training program of the astronauts, five of whom are over 40 (Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard, Donald Slayton, Scott Carpenter, Virgil Grissom), has proved that a man can double his normal physical competence at ages much beyond 21. Any middle-ager's physiological potential is probably as unique as his fingerprints. The hair may grow thinner, but the capacity for mental growth is unimpaired in middle age. It is obvious that a man or woman of 40 can understand...
...arts-orchestral, ballet and opera-and there are not many composers who would fill the bill as nicely as Purcell. It's an appetite-whetting thing." The curtain raiser was the world premiere of Fantasy, a short, four-movement suite "in homage to an earlier England" by Composer Virgil Thomson. After a drum roll and a flurry of brass, the music settled down to a sober exercise in what might be called ye olde atonality, a weaving and heaving of dissonant strings with baroque-style embellishments. It was Purcell in modern dress with the stitches showing...
...President got into motion by visiting Bethesda Naval Hospital to call on several ailing legislators-including Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield, undergoing treatment for a urinary-tract infection. While there, he dropped in on Viet Nam casualties in the neuro-surgical ward. One young marine, Lance Corporal Virgil Bohler of Silsbee, Texas, had been there in October when Lyndon came by while recuperating from his gall-bladder operation. At that time, Bohler lay unconscious and near death with a bullet wound in his head...