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...Chula Vista, Calif...
...case, a black city official has been indicted: Charles Beckham, 35, director of water and sewerage. A federal grand jury charged that Beckham, three businessmen and Darralyn Bowers, 40, a real estate agent and unofficial adviser to Young, conspired in a racketeering and bribery scheme to secure for Vista Disposal Co. a $5.6 million sludge-hauling contract from the city. According to the indictment, Bowers, who is black, and he businessmen, who are white, promised to pay Director Beckham $2,000 a month to land the lucrative contract. All pleaded not guilty to the charges last week...
Janice R. Garlick Vista, Calif...
...Life Studies and describes the conflict many mid-20th century poets faced. The dissolution of conventional poetic form and style following World War I was perhaps the single greatest phenomenon in modern literature. It posed a critical problem for poets like Lowell: whether to jump into the newly opened vista by discarding form, carrying T.S. Eliot's innovations one more step, or to make poetry more powerful by struggling with a fixed meter. Lowell, who had trained himself to write in regular meter, finally loosed up his style with Life Studies...
Robert Coles, Professor of Psychiatry and Medical Humanities, said that Kennedy "offered a stimulus to the ideas of young people through VISTA, through the Peace Corps, and through the recognition of the needs of the poor. These were symbolic gestures which argued for what he hoped to do in the next six years of office...