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There is, of course, another tune to New York. It is played on a cornet isolated from one of the George Gershwin songs in Manhattan and then carried above 96th Street and out to pockets of The Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, where, alone, it sounds less like a horn than a siren. The city's slums have also changed dramatically in the past four years, but not for the better. "Look at this," says Mrs. Wilma Burroughs, who lives in the area of now infamous Charlotte Street in the South Bronx. "It's bee four years. Four years...
...late-night news program on Iran still gets high ratings. And Walter Cronkite has taken to signing off on the CBS Evening News: "And that's the way it is, the 86th [or 96th] day of captivity for those 50 American hostages in Iran." Cronkite's gesture is well meant, but network anchormen don't usually, and shouldn't, inject patriotic reminders into news coverage. In fact, when John Connally argued in a 1977 speech in Houston that the press has a duty to express "a candid bias" for the preservation of the free enterprise system...
...When the 96th Congress was gaveled into session last January, members talked solemnly about sensing a new mood of conservatism across the land, about voters demanding less spending, less legislation, less Government. "Go slow," warned the electorate, and Congress did just that. The mood lingered. When new crises forced new problems on Congress, progress remained slow. As they adjourned for the year-end holidays, the Senators and Representatives left unresolved some pressing national issues that they will have to confront when they reconvene...
Though Richie Horner, beat by a mediocre afternoon, did not break any of the records he was chasing at the close of his stellar Harvard career this 96th edition of THE GAME was otherwise a total Harvard party right from the start...
...keeping with this tradition, the 96th Congress is debating legislation that would create a separate Cabinet-level Department of Education (DOE). A House-Senate conference committee, having hashed out the differences between DOE bills H.R. 2444 and S.210, will soon send the compromise legislation back to the Senate for final passage. Despite some attempts in the house to tack controversial amendments onto the bill--H.R. 2444 included measures to allow prayer in public schools, ban forced busing and prohibit the use of the student fees for abortions--the idea of a Department is alive and somewhat well. Much as they...