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Pride in conserving black traditions has contributed to the reviving fortunes of the nation's 117 historically black colleges. Twenty years ago, many of the best-prepared black students turned their backs on such institutions, preferring to get their education at elite Ivy League universities. Now the tide is turning, in part because of a surge of racist incidents at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, Purdue and other prestigious colleges...
...Society is still going through the shock stage," says Roy Roberts. "Some people continue to be amazed when they discover ordinary blacks who are hardworking and successful." Three months ago Navistar International used a $400,000 incentive package to lure Roberts from General Motors to become vice president and general manager of its $3 billion truck-manufacturing operation, which accounts for 75% of Navistar's revenues. He is now one of the most powerful black executives in the country. Last year, when Roberts was looking for a house in a wealthy Chicago suburb, the real estate agent asked what...
...long been able to claim the moral high ground in the campaign to stamp out chlorofluorocarbons, the chemicals that destroy the atmosphere's protective ozone layer. After all, America banned CFCs from spray cans more than a decade ago. And U.S. manufacturers are among the world's leaders in finding environmentally acceptable substitutes for CFCs, which are used as coolants and blowing agents for making plastic foam...
...Friday nine weeks ago, and another issue of TIME was headed toward the presses. Suddenly came the news that Emperor Hirohito of Japan had died. As the magazine's editorial staff tore up its story list to accommodate several pages of an obituary, makeup editor Charlotte Quiggle faced a different kind of revision. Her job is to develop a plan for the sequence of all the editorial and advertising pages each week so they make a smoothly readable magazine. TIME's advertising staff immediately told Japanese advertisers that they were free, if they wished, to cancel ads in that issue...
This trick seems to come easily to Quiggle, who joined TIME in 1979 and served as cover art researcher from 1980 to 1984 and deputy makeup editor from 1981 to 1986. She became makeup editor three years ago, but claims her natural affinity for the work goes back much further. "As a kid I seldom lost at bridge. That's why I got the job," she says half jokingly. "It requires a knack for puzzle solving." Not to mention diplomacy and stamina. Quiggle works closely with the magazine's advertising staff to help coordinate the fast-moving mix of articles...