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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Clean Government Party, the Vice Premier renounced any designs on that prestigious job. "I am too old and I wish to live longer," he explained. "A younger man is better for the job." (Hua is 57.) Similarly, al though few experts believe that the protesters would have denounced either Mao or Hua without Teng's permission, he chided the author of a wall poster that described Mao as being "70% good and 30% bad." Said Teng: "Mao was better than that. I myself am only 60% good...
...student turnout falls short of the 30,000 Hannon expected this year, and even that figure is a minute fraction of the system's total enrollment. The Chicago Urban League School that two-thirds of the city's 512 elementary schools remain either 90% white or 90% nonwhite. The state board points out that state rules require every school to have a racial composition approximating that of the school system as a whole; yet in Chicago, where 23% of students are white and 77% are nonwhite, Hannon wants a minimum racial mix of only...
There seems to be a consensus among Chicagoans that an expensive and bitterly resisted busing program, like the one imposed in Los Angeles this fall by a federal district judge, would not lead either to quality education or to integration. University of Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, whose antibusing views have stirred academic controversy, believes a voluntary plan is the only way lasting desegregation can be achieved in Chicago. Says he: "The apparent solution requires going back to the fundamental issue of equal education opportunity, regardless of race. Every child should have an opportunity to attend a school other than...
...kaleidoscopically changing industry, Revlon stands out for at least two reasons. While most of its rivals concentrate on either class or mass markets, Revlon sells cosmetics, toiletries and fragrances in every price range through every type of retail outlet, from the most exclusive department stores and beauty salons to the most crowded discount houses (it is even test-selling a few products in supermarkets). Equally important, it has survived triumphantly the moment of maximum danger for a cosmetics company: the death of the founder. The test came four years ago with the terminal illness of Charles Revson, a free-spending...
...grand scale. An eerie rumble of double basses and tympani built in the pit. Then a beam of light stabbed down onto the blackened stage, illuminating the figure of the blind poet Milton (Arnold Moss). "Hail, holy light!" he intoned. The choir of black-robed, monklike figures, clustered on either side of the stage in two four-tiered towers, burst forth in a great invocation: "What in us is dark/ Illumine...