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...begun to acknowledge teenage pregnancy as a major issue for the black community. The National Urban League has declared it its No. 1 concern and last spring, on Father's Day, launched a program aimed at teenage boys, the often forgotten partners in the problem of teen pregnancy (see box). Says League President John Jacob: "We cannot talk about strengthening the black community and family without facing up to the fact that teenage pregnancy is a major factor in high unemployment, the numbers of high school dropouts and the numbers of blacks below the poverty line...
...long ago it was generally supposed that one kind of building was suitable to almost every modern purpose. Corporate offices? Put up a plain box, a big one. A university? Put up a couple of plain boxes, medium size. A civic building? Another box, and make it bland...
Between 1900 and 1904, the Met's London-born librarian, Lionel Mapleson, immortalized dozens of performances from his perch in the prompter's box and, later, from a catwalk 40 ft. above the stage. But then he abandoned the project, and the fragile, two-minute wax cylinders were left to decay and, in some cases, break and disappear. As early as 1938, collectors began preserving the priceless vocal treasures. Now a team of two critics and a recording engineer, under the auspices of the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, the Performing Arts Research Center and the New York...
...that in a generally depressed business the Cannon Group is doing well. King Solomon 's Mines, which came out before Thanksgiving, has made $16 million. Runaway Train and Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, which open across the country next week, show promise of a big draw at the box office as well. And, brags Globus, "nobody gave us nothing on a plate of gold...
...spring of 1916, a 14-year-old San Franciscan was taken to see Yosemite National Park. There he was presented with a simple box camera. It was an epochal gift: over the next 68 years Ansel Adams was to become America's best-known photographer and a major champion of its imperiled wilderness. Even now, when every stump in creation has been subjected to a portrait sitting, his pictures retain the power to startle...