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Maryland 81, Tenn-Chattanooga...
...World, the nation's most important liberal newspaper, to fold, his political sentiments gradually shifted. Appalled by the ignorance expressed in popular opinion, Lippmann feared strict adherence to decisions determined by numerical majority could threaten the welfare and freedom of the nation. The pivotal event for Lippmann was the Chattanooga, Tenn., Scopes trial, where law-abiding officials manipulated a popular consensus to convict a young schoolteacher for instructing his pupils in Darwin's evolutionary theory. He outlined his revised stance in Public Opinion, arguing that chief authority for public decision-making should be left to professional experts privy to classified...
...punch: this week they are quietly launching the nation's first national degree-granting TV college, with ten public television systems and seven collaborating colleges across the nation: California State University-Dominguez Hills, lona College, Linfield College, the universities of Maryland and Pennsylvania, the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, and Southern Vermont University...
N.U.C. students register in one of the consortium's cooperating local colleges. The TV programs are beamed from Maryland to local stations or cable systems serving Los Angeles, Sacramento, Portland, Chattanooga, Indianapolis, New York City, Pullman, Wash., State College, Pa., Moscow, Idaho, as well as Maryland, Oregon and Vermont. TV-viewing students will get credits and degrees from the college nearest them; those enrollees not served by a local college have to register with the extension division of the University of Maryland...
...gainers have been hub cities such as Los Angeles, Houston, Chicago and New York and recreation meccas like Hawaii and Florida. But there have been losers too. Some 60 cities have been stripped of all scheduled airline service. In Chattanooga, which lost much of its service when United and Eastern pulled out this year, James Hunt, a Chamber of Commerce executive, says unhappily of deregulation: "Count us as one of the minuses...