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Meanwhile, under the impetus of affirmative action, bright black students were being lured away from predominantly black private colleges, even such celebrated places as Fisk, Morehouse, Tuskegee Institute, Howard University and Spelman College. While the number of black college students more than tripled in the past two decades, the percentage enrolled in black colleges dropped from 82% in 1965 to about 28% in 1981. Now, inflation and the Reagan clampdown on student aid are striking hardest at black private colleges with tiny endowments and at students whose parents have roughly half the income of white parents. Even worse, black colleges...
RAGGEDY MAN Directed by Jack Fisk Screenplay by William D. Wittliff
...edges of the film's life, giving it texture and menace and meaning. But Spacek is the center. Until now a worldly child-woman, with the most infectious smile in movies, Spacek here proves she need not play gamines for the rest of her career. Jack Fisk, the most talented of the young American production designers (Days of Heaven, Movie Movie) and Spacek's husband, makes an assured directorial debut, trusting the material enough to present it without apology or irony. Now it's up to moviegoers to trust themselves and find Raggedy...
DIED. James Fisk, 70, physicist who played a leading role in the development of radar and went on to serve as president and chairman of Bell Telephone Laboratories; in Elizabethtown, N.Y. Joining Bell labs, the research division of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., as a technician in 1939, Fisk was instrumental in the development of microwave magnetrons for high-frequency radar during World War II. As head of Bell labs from 1959 to 1973, he supervised pioneering research on transistors, superconductive metals and industrial lasers...
...eleven straight wins for the A's, eight straight for Whitey Herzog's St. Louis Cardinals, off to their best start in 35 years, and six in a row for the ever underprivileged White Sox, who have just added three certified all-stars-Ron Le Flore, Carlton Fisk and Greg Luzinski-to an all-pitch, no-hit team. Kansas City, the loser in last fall's World Series, is in last place in the American League West, and an aging Los Angeles Dodger team that had the experts shaking their heads in the off season jumped...