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...well, back to the Mississippi, where the French and the British waged constant warfare along their river boundary. In fact, the final battle of the Mississippi War took place as late as 1865. Only then, at the Battle of Prairie du Chien, did the combined British and American armies, under the leadership of General Sir Ulysses S. Grant, persuade the French and their Indian allies to stay on their side of the water. After that, Paris seemed to lose interest in its third of the North American continent, and with French blessing, the newly independent nation of Louisiana unfurled...
...black leaders in America. Martin Luther King graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, as did Georgia State Senator Julian Bond. Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young and Novelist Toni Morrison graduated from Howard University, where ex-National Urban League President Vernon Jordan got his law degree. Historian W.E.B. Du Bois received a B.A. from Fisk University in Nashville...
...beginning to fade. Inaugurating France's new, high-speed train last week (see SCIENCE), he was greeted with polite applause but no great enthusiasm. Hecklers bearing placards at stations along the way included members of the Confédération Française Démocratique du Travail, a union that enjoys close links to the Socialist Party. Their message: workers still expect Mitterrand to deliver on his promise of lowering unemployment and reducing the work week to 35 hours. The leftist press too has begun to be concerned that Mitterrand's ideological commitments may be getting...
...contract grants that demand something in return. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, private help has jumped from $6 million in 1979 to $18 million this year. At M.I.T. Exxon is financing an $8 million project on combustion research. Harvard Medical School has announced a $6 million grant from Du Pont for genetic research. Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh has signed a $5 million contract with Westinghouse to fund the Robotics Institute, granting Westinghouse first patent rights on any research findings. Dartmouth College receives $75,000 a year from DePuy, a medical manufacturer, to develop prosthetic hip replacements. Columbia University...
Wall Street's main concern is the bulging federal deficit, which s $55.6 billion this year and rising. Government borrowing weighs heavily on credit markets already strained by brisk demand for business loans, including the huge sums to finance megabuck corporate mergers like that between Du Pont and Conoco. The Administration has predicted that the deficit will shrink to $42.5 billion in 1982, and disappear altogether by 1984. But those targets are fast slipping away. The Congressional Budget Office forecast last week that the deficit would be $65 billion in 1982 and would total an extra $50 billion...