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...begin nearly every week of ""the year with the possibility that our biggest story-the cover-is liable to change any time up to a few hours before we are scheduled to go to press. The one issue when such a change is unlikely is that which appears in the first week of the year. That issue-next week's-is reserved for the Man of the Year. By traditional definition, he (or she) is the person who, in the judgment of the editors, dominated the news of the past year and left an indelible mark -for good...
...Angry Feud. Holt's biggest single achievement, however, was holding together the tenuous government coalition organized 23 years ago between his own Liberal Party, which controls 81 of Parliament's 184 seats, and the Country Party, which holds 28 seats. Lacking Menzies' charisma, Holt often had to resort to face-losing compromises that made him look weak. Still, that was better, he felt, than the Menzies-style one-man rule. Holt believed in a "leadership that can lead but at the same time be close enough to the team to be part...
...unresponsive to the special needs of the neighborhoods they serve. One obvious way to ease both problems is to break up big systems into smaller ones - and, indeed, almost every major U.S. city is now considering some form of decentralization. Not surprisingly, New York, which has both the biggest system and the worst problems, is debating the most drastic remedy: a plan to create up to 60 semiautonomous neighborhood school districts...
...will be associated with images much closer at hand. Last September, for the first time, Reuters started offering U.S. news to subscrib ers in direct competition with A.P. and U.P.I. This January it will launch a U.S. financial news wire in competition with Dow-Jones. "The U.S. is the biggest news producer and consumer in the world," says Reuters General Manager Gerald Long. "I have always believed...
Died. Dr. Henry B. Bigelow, 88, U.S. pioneer in oceanography; of pneumonia; in Concord, Mass. As a Harvard professor in 1930, Bigelow founded what has become one of the nation's biggest oceanographic centers, a vast complex at Woods Hole, Mass., that has charted the Gulf Stream, explained tricks of sonar to the U.S. Navy, now maps the ocean's floor and searches out ways to tap the vast underwater food potential...