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...Since 1969, contractors for major federally funded construction projects in Philadelphia have been required to employ an increased percentage of non-white workers. The so-called Philadelphia Plan was devised by the Nixon Administration to combat discriminatory practices in the construction industry, but a group of contractors opposed the plan on the grounds that its "quotas" constitute reverse discrimination. The Administration's approach, said the employers' suit, violates the Constitution's color-blind equal-protection guarantee. Lower courts upheld the plan, ruling that the minority percentages are "goals," not quotas. The Supreme Court last week refused...
...miles of largely unpatrolled border. Nor is there much that the badly undermanned U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service can do about keeping the immigrants out. The "illegals" who are caught-some 320,000 during the last fiscal year-are simply sent back across the border. The people who employ, encourage and often exploit them, are, for all practical purposes, beyond the reach...
...youth had been distributing promotional leaflets for Termpapers Unlimited, Inc., of Boston. The company could neither verify nor deny that the young man was in its employ. "It could be a front," a company representative said yesterday. She added that she did not know who was leafletting for the company...
...takes talent to recognize genius. Marcel Proust caught his first readers napping. One of the publishers to whom he submitted the first volume of his seven-volume masterpiece Remembrance of Things Past rejected it, explaining: "I cannot understand why a gentleman should employ 30 pages to describe how he turns and returns on his bed before going to sleep." When that first volume, Swann's Way, finally appeared in print in 1913-at Proust's expense-an influential critic dismissed the author as the "crudest of improvisers...
...Instruction in English--Harvard began a program last Spring, under the direction of Mr. Lloyd David, to employ non-English speaking Puerto-Ricans in the Departments of Buildings and Grounds and Food Services, and to provide daily instruction in English...