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Bernie Krieger is wearing his Glee Club tie again this year. He will not be singing with the Collegium; tighter Glee Club rehearsals forbid it, "and I could use a few more evenings free, anyway." Dr. Krieger, having spent last summer in the Mediterranean area with Collegium as tour physician, looks forward now to accompanying the Glee Club to China in the same capacity. "I'm very excited about it," he says, "we'll be doing some good singing this year...
...Says Yurack: "The rest of us could have gone home and played tiddly winks." On the eighth day, the jury gave up, and now the ten-month-old prosecution will have to be resumed in November. Says Yurack: "I would not have wanted that jury to judge me-God forbid...
Still there? It's almost November now, and we are in Los Angeles (or Philadelphia or San Francisco or, heaven forbid, Montreal) for the 1981 World Series. The winner of the four-of-seven series will reign as baseball's finest team...
...rules include two important changes that were all but ignored last week in the initial public debate. One would make it far more difficult for workers who are discriminated against to collect back pay for jobs or promotions they did not get. The other provision would flatly forbid any employer with a Government contract to favor one race over another-hiring blacks, say, instead of equally qualified whites-even to atone for the effects of past discrimination. Government officials privately describe the new rules as an attempt to test how far it is politically safe for the Administration to proceed...
...House last week made one striking attempt to stop Watt. By a 358-46 margin (including 142 Republicans), it passed a version of the $11.2 billion Interior Department appropriation bill containing provisions that would forbid some of the Secretary's proposals. Among them is Watt's plan to streamline the Office of Surface Mining, which has already led to intradepartmental mutiny. In May Watt decided to shut down the Denver office of OSM, which supervises strip-mining operations in eight Western states, and ordered 113 of its 133 employees to move, most of them to somewhat less cosmopolitan...