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...achievement gap had grown even larger after busing. Scholars who have reviewed the evidence, including Armor, Bell, Edmonds, Giazer, and St. John, have concluded that using had little if any effect on the academic achievement of either black or white children. Thus, the most recent sociological evidence falls to confirm a basic premise underlying the rationale for court-ordered busing, i.e. that it will positively effect the academic performance of minority children...
Nobody seems to know whether that story is true or not, but it made the rounds late last year, always passed off as the gospel truth. The people who should be able to confirm the story--officials at UHS, for example--say they've never heard of the incident, that such things rarely happen...
...Soyuz flight (TIME, April 21). The Russians sought to reassure them. Referring to the Soyuz's emergency landing near the Chinese border, Major General Vladimir Shatalov, chief of cosmonaut training, said: "Of course, no one would have conducted such a test on purpose. But the flight did help confirm the Soyuz spaceship's full potentialities-in particular, the ability to save crewmen's lives in an extraordinary situation." That may indeed be true. But if for any reason Soyuz does not make it into orbit, NASA will not be entirely unprepared. The space agency has quietly planned...
Merrill Lynch officials will not confirm it, but there are signs that the firm will "unbundle"-that is, begin charging separately for services such as maintaining certain kinds of records, sending out market letters or investment advice. Charges for at least some of these services were buried in the old fixed commissions. If Merrill Lynch does unbundle, the rest of the industry is sure to follow. The one certainty about Mayday is that brokers and investors will change the ways in which they do business. The three major changes...
...Department of Transportation official yesterday called Ely "a very nice gentleman" and "an old friend of the secretary's," but refused to confirm reports that Coleman has suggested Ely's name for the general counsel post...