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...Appeals ruled 6-3 that city-suburban busing could indeed be ordered by the state legislature or, if the legislature did nothing, by the courts. The problem, therefore, appears headed once again for the Supreme Court, whose ruling could decisively affect similar suits pending in Boston, Hartford, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Wilmington and a number of other cities. In the meantime, though, the Sixth Circuit Court stayed any actual execution of Judge Roth's integration orders until the Detroit suburbs have a chance to state their objections in court-and those objections will be long and loud...
...elected are: Philip N. Alexander of Dunster House and Kingston, Jamaica; John Arao of Leverett House and Evanston, III.; Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House and Buffalo, N.Y.; Michael M. Biehl of Adams House and Elm Grove, Wis.; John P. Boyd of Lowell House and Stoneham; Steven C. Bunnell of Kirkland House and Rumson, N.J.; Ira A. Burnim of North House and Melrose; and, Jack F. Conn of South House and CreveCoeur...
...John. His chief characters are Agent Ward, a younger version of Hunt himself (they both went to Brown University), and a casual, thrill-hunting Washington C.P.A., Steve Bentley, who describes the nation's capital as "a great town if you've got the stamina of a Cape buffalo and the wealth of a Punjab prince." Most of the books are predictable concoctions of espionage and sex in exotic settings. Hunt is said to earn $20,000 a year from his writing...
Secretariat-the name has a kind of bureaucratic resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...
...Buffalo drew national attention to itself by the simple expedient of grabbing the hottest young conductor anywhere, Michael Tilson Thomas, 27, who drew his own national attention as associate conductor of the Boston Symphony. Though the Buffalo is not yet hale and hardy, Thomas appears to be winning the orchestra's fight for the youth audience...