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...considered eccentric and tragic. Today the list multiplies: a four-year-old Indianapolis boy was mauled to death in January; a six-year-old Long Island boy met a similar fate in April; in July a three-year-old Bronx lad was mauled. The question now is: Has the breed degenerated...
Others argue that irresponsible owners, not careless mating, are at the root of the problem. "Anyone who has a large-breed dog should be required to take it to obedience school," says Canine Psychologist Michael E. Fox of St. Louis' Washington University. "The younger dogs are the more trainable," he adds, and recommends "six to eight weeks old" as a good starting time...
...problem will be his own hypertense persona. Says one Democratic Party pro acidly, "He's only 36. He still has time to develop a personality." Flournoy and his aides intend to push Brown into early confrontations, including a series of television debates, hoping that familiarity with Brown will breed opposition. Brown intends to push back by tarring Flournoy as a "recycled Reagan" and by forcing him to take a stand on impeachment, which Flournoy has so far avoided doing. At the moment, Brown seems to be ahead. But it will be a long campaign in the nation...
...nation's professionals were employed by federal, state and local government; but 60% of black professionals held such posts. Government programs that proliferated in the 1960s took many blacks up the job escalator into the middle class in half the usual time. "A new breed of cat was produced, the black technocrat," says Robert Coard, director of an antipoverty agency in Boston. William Fuller, who earned $8,100 a year as a grade-school teacher in Portland, Ore., illustrates how fast a black technocrat can ascend. Between 1967 and 1969 he advanced from a planner for a Model Cities...
Families are a funny breed. They draw, spill, suck and drink the blood they share. They seem to survive everything with dumb granitic tenacity. What they give to each other is measureless, like divine grace; what they take is inexorable, like mortal fate...