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...Tommy's talk these days is unprecedentedly mellow. "When a network can't even raise its eyebrows in a newscast," he says, "you have to adjust. You don't get anywhere being angry. You have to work from within." His social commentary will be "softer," he promises. He will work "through indirection...
...gain from racial turmoil. Most blatant was Congressman Albert Watson, a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor. Democratic Governor Robert McNair went on television Jan. 27 and told South Carolinians that "we've run out of courts, and we've run out of time, and we adjust to new circumstances." Watson gleefully accused the Governor of "surrender." Watson was the only major politician to accept an invitation to address Jeryl Best's Darlington County Freedom-of-Choice Council on Feb. 22. The Congressman urged his listeners to "stand up and be counted...
Tarini said it is "completely feasible" to have interhouse dining for all meals. He suggested that Harvard adjust the rates it charges Radcliffe for interhouse meals at Harvard so that it merely covers costs rather than making a profit...
...rapport was important, for many of the nation's mayors have complained that the Administration has favored state governments over municipalities. Presidential Counsellor Daniel P. Moynihan gave the ten mayors the Administration's first cohesive statement of urban policies. The outline emphasized the need to adjust federal programs so that highway projects, for example, do not merely aggravate urban problems. City governments should be strengthened through consolidation with surrounding communities. Metropolitan areas, said the Administration, should equalize their services, so that, for example, inner-city schools will have the same quality as those in suburbs. Omitting the previous...
...Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, his first novel about the failure of revolution to inspirit his fellow Ghanaians. But contempt for his countrymen still seethes, this time because they are corruptly devoted to cars, tape recorders and neon "WELLCOME" signs at airports. Baako, his fragile hero, cannot adjust to such trinket worship. His sister's premature baby dies when the family too quickly presents it at an outdoor festival because they are anxious for the traditional gifts of money. At his job as a writer for Ghana-vision, he finds that there are only funds enough...