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This kind of cool, specific advice runs throughout Black Child Care (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Its authors are Dr. Alvin Poussaint, 41, associate dean of students at Harvard Medical School, and Dr. James Comer, 40, professor at Yale University Child Study Center. Their book, written in question-and-answer format, is a stage-by-stage study of the black child's development from infancy through adolescence...
Garvin's corporate background is in transport, refining and marketing as well as chemicals-areas of the business that are increasingly important to Exxon now that governments in the Middle East and Latin America are squeezing the profits out of petroleum production. Garvin was marked as a comer at Exxon in the early 1960s. In 1965 he took over the company's chemical operations and helped turn them into the fastest-growing part of Exxon's business...
...take a judge hostage when their legal situation becomes hopeless. A very exciting and sympathetic portrait that gets better and better every time you see it. It's playing with another wonderful film about French criminals, Borsalino. Jean Paul Belmondo gives a marvelous performance as an up-and-comer in the Marseilles rackets...
...Jeff Kramer's winning clocking of 4:03.5. But the freshman standout, plagued by insufficient time to work out, did manage to log a 3:08 3/4-mile time while running the mile. "He was really strong in the cross-country season, and he is going to be a comer," Hunt said...
Political organizing is a means of strengthening community organizing. The political process ought not to be left by default to the first comer. Communities can control political power well before they can hope to control economic power. But by getting political power we can begin to bring economic power back to everyone in the neighborhoods...