Word: winging
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Meanwhile, Penn's recent success has placed sophomore Sam Gellard, a wing on the Quakers' potent first line, at the top of the League's individual scoring race. Cellard, who tallied four points in Tuesday's triumph over Yale, now leads with 14, one ahead of Cornell captain John Hughes...
...illustrated anew how swiftly a once radical idea can become national consensus and good politics. Only a few years ago, the notion that the quality of life in America is not good enough, and that the U.S. is wantonly despoiling its physical environment was the concern mainly of left-wing critics, grumpy academics and dedicated conservationists well out of the mainstream of U.S. politics. Yet last week the President effectively moved to assume personal command of the gathering battle for a better environment...
...Moscow is becoming a mecca for young "tourist provocateurs," as Pravda calls them, the Kremlin can blame an activist network of European student groups. Most seem politically right-wing, and they have even been called neo-fascist in some European countries. But their chief interest is in protesting violations of civil liberties. The Belgian student represented an organization called the Flemish Action Committee for Eastern Europe. Scandinavia's SMOG (a Russian acronym for Courage, Youth, Sincerity and Genius) sponsored October's GUM demonstration and the one in Leningrad last week. Both groups, and several others, are in touch...
...York. In 1936 he went to Paris. "It was a traumatic experience," Biederman recalls. "I felt I had come too late, that it was all over. I decided that America was the place, with an empty culture, a clean slate." Back home again, he eventually settled in Red Wing, where he took to studying the architecture of hornets' nests and the intricate compositions of flowers in order to understand, he says, "the structure common to all objects in nature." He also worked on a weighty, 696-page tome. Art as the Evolution of Visual Knowledge, which he published himself...
Emancipated Executives. Consciously or not, Pillsbury is staging a trial run for an idea of Saul Alinsky's, the radical organizer. Alinsky says that he is trying to induce "some leading left-wing economists and emancipated corporation executives" to help him form an organization called Proxies for People. It would solicit proxies from foundations, mutual funds, union welfare funds, churches and universities, and vote them to compel corporations to pursue such social goals as ending pollution. Alinsky says that he is getting voluntary proxies every day from individual sympathizers-and telephone calls from worried and presumably unemancipated corporation executives...