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...each of its schools equal to at least half the percentage of minority-group students in the area as a whole. In an area with a 20% black enrollment, for example, at least 10% of the student body in each school would be black. Cities would have flexibility to adopt whatever methods they choose, and to reject busing if they could make another technique work as well, but those that failed to show progress would lose all federal support. A companion Ribicoff bill would provide incentives for suburban communities to make room for low-and middle-income housing...
...TIME, July 5). The Senate subsequently passed a bill, 79 to 1, creating an ambitiously named Conquest of Cancer Agency. It would be administratively and financially independent of NIH, though nominally part of the agency. The theory behind both plans is that medicine knows enough about the disease to adopt a crash-program approach comparable to the Manhattan Project during World...
...contemporary American historian who wishes to rise above the fray, the options are few. He can reject the current revisionist trend and adopt an orthodox stance. He can synthesize the two strands and turn out the definitive work. Or he can borrow a little from each, blur the basic issues, and emerge with a book that seems statesmanlike only because it is so jejune. Adam Ulam took the last choice; the result is his intellectually anemic study, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World...
...homosexuals have pressed the cause of gay civil rights with as much legal energy as Jack Baker and James McConnell, both 29. Recently they won a round when a Minneapolis court ruled that McConnell could adopt Baker (TIME, Sept. 6). Two other legal battles, however, have just ended in failure for the couple. First, the Minnesota Supreme Court ruled that they were not entitled to a marriage license, despite their claim that "restricting marriage to only couples of the opposite sex is irrational and invidiously discriminatory." On the contrary, said the court, "the institution of marriage as a union...
...novel, a semi-autobiographical work called Anya Koro (Journey Through the Darkness). But he was a prolific short-story writer and essayist. His delicate and unadorned prose made his works classics. Shiga was frustrated by what he considered the inadequacies of his own language: he once urged Japan to adopt "a more exacting foreign tongue...