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...guaranteed the hiring of Atlanta's first black superintendent and other high-level black administrators. Outraged by the tradeoff, which he sees as a dangerous precedent, N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins last week gave the Atlanta chapter 30 days to reverse its position or face revocation of its charter...
...critics say about President Nixon, they have usually been willing to concede his mastery in foreign relations. But these days Europeans are beginning to doubt Nixon's wisdom even in foreign affairs-at least in Europe. While Nixon and Henry Kissinger still call for a bold New Atlantic Charter, a host of anxieties about America's intentions plague Europeans...
...said Harry Lafont, 47, a French businessman on holiday in the U.S. this month with his wife Suzy. "When the dollar was devalued once again, we decided we could make the trip this year." Like the Lafonts, vacationers from around the world are taking advantage of dollar devaluations, cheap charter flights and their own higher incomes by joining the biggest tour ist invasion the U.S. has ever experienced. Led by the Japanese, British, West Germans and French in that or der, overseas travel to America in the first three months of 1973 was up by 29% over the same period...
...first-timers, the Lafonts stuck pretty much to prime attractions. They had signed up three months in advance for an economy charter flight to the U.S. They set out, with a budget of $2,000 for fares, meals and hotels, on a whirlwind coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. During their 48-hour stay in Los Angeles, they sampled bumper-to-bumper freeway traffic, paid a visit to Disneyland, took a bus tour of Beverly Hills and a trip to the sprawling baroque mansion of Silent Film Star Harold Lloyd. Though pleased by the friendliness of Americans wherever they...
...published works, Ieronymos started out with all the zeal of a theologian newly armed with power. He ordered special drives to aid the poor and sick, revamped the church welfare system, rented hundreds of "homes of tranquillity" for the aged. He raised clerical salaries substantially. He drafted a new charter for the church that set 72 as the retirement age for bishops, broadened participation by the laity, and gave the church more responsibility for religious education, which has long been shared with the state...