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Literal and literary insularity are not easy to achieve in New York City, but Playwright Paul Zindel has done it. He has lived, written and worked as a high school chemistry teacher on the city's lightly populated borough in the bay, Staten Island. Until last week: with a Pulitzer Prize* as a letter of recommendation, and with the pride of bachelorhood as impetus, he boarded a ferry and moved to Manhattan...
Like a very large proportion of Alaska's present population, the assistant district attorney of the Fairbanks Borough is from "outside" (as Alaskans call any ??lace beyond their borders). His name is Tom, and he's a Texan whose first ambition was to go to West Point and whose second ambition was to be a big-league baseball player. He didn't succeed at either of these, so he ended up first in Texas law school and then in the Fairbanks D. A. office. Tom doesn't like the moral atmosphere of Fairbanks-("For its size...
Many citizens already have high hopes. John A. Carlson, borough chairman of the Fairbanks area, yearns for new industry to come to his city and make it truly the "golden heart" of Alaska. He is not thinking of the jobs that will result, but of the taxes he desperately needs to clean up the appalling mess in Fairbanks. "You cannot fight pollution without money," he says. Anchorage, which is in much better condition, needs strong planning controls. "We have grown so fast that the land can no longer absorb us," says John Asplund, chairman of the Greater Anchorage Area Borough...
...politics, he sensed early that Harlem would want to replace the once-effective Powell with someone who could produce more for the district. He served as an assistant U.S. Attorney and allied himself with another prominent black politician, Manhattan Borough President Percy Sutton. In 1966 he was elected to the state assembly. Subsequently, he decided that 1970 was the year to go after Powell. Though his margin was cut by other candidates with the same notion, the voters proved Rangel right...
...since no self-respecting black academician would accept the post." Harvard had to take Guinier, "whose only postgraduate work was in the Law School and who ran unsuccessfully for Manhattan borough president in 1949 as candidate of the Communist-dominated American Labor party...