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Sputtered an Atlanta TV editorialist: "A lowdown, dirty trick." Said Mayor Maynard Jackson: "This is pouring salt in the wound." Because of budget problems, Atlanta's men in blue have been receiving meager raises. In addition, a suit filed by black officers in 1973 claiming illegal discrimination has caused a hiring freeze, resulting in 220 vacancies on the force. Jackson cabled Houston Mayor James McConn: "Object very strongly...
Philip Geyelin, the Washington Post's Pulitzer-prizewinning editorialist, often said that Meg Greenfield, his deputy, was "so good she can run the page without me." Little did he know. Last week Greenfield, 48, replaced Geyelin, 56, as editor of the paper's editorial page, one of the most influential soapboxes in American journalism...
...Immigration and Naturalization Service has sent engineers back to the drawing board to eliminate the wall's "inhumane features." They did not, however, accept the satirical advice of Editorialist Sierra: "The fence should be constructed so it will not scrape or cut and it should be built by Mexican labor. After all, Mexicans know how to weave very well. Remember our baskets...
...same civilized tone pervades this epistolatory collection-missives, telegrams and interoffice memos-thai ranges back to White's suburban boyhood in Westchester, N.Y., then follows him through careers as student, editorialist, humorist, farmer and, finally, retiree to the shores of Maine...
...children still attend largely black schools. But there is no rioting in the streets, the ghettos are not aflame, and, except where busing is an explosive issue, one of the most contentious and compelling stories of the last decade has faded from U.S. front pages. Writes New York Times Editorialist Roger Wilkins in the May issue of Esquire: "When the traumatic upheavals of the Sixties ended, it was easy for whites to retreat once more into the fantasy world in which blacks were not visible, or not important, or both...