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DIED. Alfred Franz Wallenstein, 84, the first nationally renowned U.S.-born conductor, who raised the Los Angeles Philharmonic to the top ranks as its music director from 1943 to 1956; in New York City. A child prodigy who played cello on the vaudeville circuit to help pay for his music studies, he conducted his Sinfonietta on the Mutual Network from...
...that the Reagan Administration had hoped to use to discredit mandatory school desegregation efforts. The case involves a Nashville court-ordered busing plan for students from kindergarten through high school in both city and suburban school districts. Last November, the Justice Department joined the city's appeal of a circuit court decision backing the plan because it found that Nashville schools are still segregated even after 27 years of civil rights litigation...
...brief siding with white police officers and firemen in Boston who have filed a reverse-discrimination case scheduled to come before the Supreme Court this spring. When layoffs caused by Proposition 2 1/2 threatened to undo the effects of a recently approved and implemented affirmative action plan, a Circuit Court ordered the departments to alter their seniority plans to preserve in part the effects of preferential hiring. That decision resulted in the firing of some whites who would have retained their jobs under the established seniority plan, and led police and firefighter unions, with the state of Massachusetts, to appeal...
...squad's goals--may depend on the return of Brad Desaulniers, who took a year off from Harvard, but not from squash. Desaulniers, whose brother Mike went undefeated in four years of Harvard squash, has been playing against and beating some of the top pros on the squash circuit as an amateur...
SENTENCED. Eugene ("Mercury") Morris, 36, former all-pro running back for the Miami Dolphins during the glory years of the early '70s, who was convicted last November on cocaine-trafficking charges; to 20 years in prison, five more than the mandatory minimum. Said Circuit Judge Ellen Morphonios Gable, who pronounced sentence: "George [Yoss, the prosecutor] and I both like Merc, but we've got to do what...