Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some believe the Bakke decision will make it easier for blacks and whites to work together on affirmative action. Says New York Senator Pat Moynihan: "A bureaucracy that says, 'White teachers get in this line and blacks in this line,' threatens to break up the coalition that worked for affirmative action in the first place. The Bakke decision gets us back into a sensible mainstream idea of what affirmative action should be. Maybe now we can put the coalition back together...
...tube Saturday afternoon. At this writing, the men's finalists are Borg and Connors, and Martina Navratilova and the redoubtable Chris Evert will duke it out for the women's crown. And for you lovers of the Boston Lobsters, who are still off on their Wimbledon break, well, at last report the team was hotly pursued by a chef with a New burgh recipe. Stay tuned. Seriously, the Wimbledon finals will be on Channel 4, starting Saturday at 12:30 and going on until the cows come home...
...Cleveland, waiting for the Cuyahoga River to catch fire, as it does every summer, and playing the terrible Indians. Faithful Channel 38 will bring you all four games--Friday at 7:30, Saturday's twi-night doubleheader at 5:30, and Sunday at 2. Then comes the All-Star break, and the obligatory game, Tuesday night from beautiful San Diego...
...Forman of the London Times, and won permission to travel the Lunghai railway from Paochi through Sian to the gap through which the Yellow River flowed and the railway ran. The Japanese, on the far side of the river, habitually shelled this gap by day. The station at the break, where we spent the evening, stank of urine, stank of shit, stank of bodies. All around us were acres of huddled peasants, bundles of flesh lying in the cold on the ground, waiting for the next train to take them east, to the rear area and food. Babies cried...
...high-backed chair, listening to me with visible distaste because his meddling sister-m-law insisted he had to. I talked of the dying; then of the taxes; then of the extortions. It was obvious he did not know what was going on. I tried to break through by telling him about the cannibalism. He said that cannibalism in China was impossible I said that I had seen dogs eating people on the roads. He said that was impossible. But there I had him. I had asked Harrison Forman to accompany me to Chiang's office...