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There are journalists who see their work as a semi-official responsibility in a democracy, like another branch of government. On the inside too long, they become bureaucrats, watching that everyone meets certain rules of conduct, distributing each candidate's publicity fairly in their pages, pigeon-holing the latest events in their columns...
...stepping in to help. Corporations are "adopting" schools, providing everything from laboratory equipment to volunteer instructors. In Chicago, 176 firms have established links with 600 schools; in Los Angeles, the figures are 189 and 225. Seven of Atlanta's largest banks, as well as the local Federal Reserve branch, have collaborated in establishing the city's newest magnet school, Harper High. The banks provide not only money but their own employees for financial courses and internships for interested students. Such programs have a variety of benefits. Memphis Schools
...Branch Breaks...
...oldtime Baltimore Orioles, was a lightskinned, straight-haired Negro. A few Mexicans, Cubans and strongly suntanned whites who have played for other big-league clubs have been widely believed (but never proved) to be Negroes. Last week, after three years and $25,000 worth of scouting the Negro leagues, Branch ("The Brain") Rickey called in reporters-not to make a confession but to tell the world that Brooklyn had signed Jack Roosevelt Robinson, a Negro shortstop...
...House committee voted to order Watt not to hold a sale of mining rights scheduled for last week. Under federal law, its vote should have been controlling. But the Supreme Court in June declared unconstitutional the procedure under which Congress delegates authority to the Executive Branch to perform certain acts while reserving the option to later overrule the Executive. The committee protested that it had ordered Watt not to cancel the sale but only to delay it. Watt said even that action was unconstitutional...