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...miles of light rail and twelve miles of new freeway. The project's $382 million price tag is modest by mass-transit standards, in part because the system does not strive to be as high-tech as the computer culture it will serve. Says Susan Wilson, chairwoman of the Santa Clara County Transit District: "We're looking for a good Chevrolet, not a Cadillac...
...this entire year a band of treaty enthusiasts has traveled from Paris to San Francisco conducting small celebrations to remind as many people as possible about the legacy of 1783. None has been more dedicated than Joan Challinor, a Washington historian, who served as chairwoman of the National Committee for the Bicentennial of the Treaty of Paris. She appeared in Boston's Old North Church to talk to the faithful. She took a ride above Utah in a hot-air balloon dubbed The Treaty of Paris, the connection being that this is also the bicentennial of manned flight...
...wouldn't mind it one bit if the city passed a formal limit," licensing commission Chairwoman Mary Calnan said yesterday...
...White House also dismissed another member of the six-person commission, Stephen Horn, president of California State University at Long Beach and a moderate Republican. He was replaced by Mary Louise Smith, former chairwoman of the Republican National Committee. The removal of Flemming and Horn marks only the second time in the commission's 24-year history that a President has fired members.* Black leaders across the U.S. promptly blasted the move as a threat to the committee's tradition of outspoken independence. "Arthur Flemming was dismissed for doing his job too well," charged Democratic Congressman Harold Washington...
...record 1,237 Pulitzer entries in journalism. In an intensive three days and nights, members of the features jury read the equivalent in words of 30 novels-only to learn that Cooke's story, which had never been submitted to them, had won in their category. An angry chairwoman, Critic Judith Crist, said she would have thrown out the story. But final decisions on Pulitzers reside with the powerful 17-man Advisory Board, a cozy fraternity of journalistic insiders...