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...Masters Tournament, which begins today, the pros did have some water to contend with-a pond that cuts about halfway through the fifteenth hole. Masters officials decided this year to move the tee back onto a big mound. This makes the hole longer to play, and the pros were worried about making it over...
...joint report soon to be submitted to the State Legislature, the Department of Natural Resources and the Metropolitan District Commission contend that industrial construction near the river-not the ecological excesses which activists associate with industry-is itself the principal cause of the Charles' troubles...
Backers of the FCC proposal point to the eleven U.S. cities where the only TV station is controlled by the sole publisher. Opponents contend that such a regulation might ultimately defeat the FCC purpose of diversifying editorial voices in the nation. In some areas, the economics of one-building ownership keep a marginal paper in business or allow for a more forceful joint news operation. The issue is packed with legal and economic complexities. FCC proposals are frequently emasculated by broadcast-industry lobbyists and their friends in Congress, and those that survive to become regulations are subject to judicial review...
...Grier and Cobbs carry the argument to extremes when they contend that the "self-concept of slaveholder is central to the American national character and is in fact the national sickness of white racism." It has been structured into demeaning laws and customs designed to keep maximum distance between black and white. Poussaint argues that what is needed is a massive program of "deconditioning" Americans from their white-superior, black-inferior models of thought and relationships. The burden in achieving this, he suggests, would fall mainly on the educational system and the mass media...
Many black athletes contend that being as good as a white player does not suffice in the pro leagues-they have to be better. The number of blacks selected for the leagues' most recent all-star games seems to bear them...