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...first is the "metropolitan plan," which tries to block white flight by incorporating suburbs under city control, then busing whites back into town to achieve balance. The courts have struck down such plans in Detroit and Richmond. Armor adds another glum note. After studying inconclusive results of the one metropolitan-integration plan tried so far, in Louisville, he says it does not seem to work. Whites, denied escape to near suburbs, move farther away, or flee into private schools. Even in sprawling Los Angeles, where, Armor thinks, some sort of metropolitan plan should be instituted and might work, the chances...
...National Chamber of Commerce and a former top OMB official, says: "The President needs a change at OMB, a man who can stand toe-to-toe with someone like Labor Secretary Ray Marshall or Defense Secretary Harold Brown and tell him to drop programs." Carlson's glum conclusion: "There will be no serious budget cutting with Mclntyre there...
Dover's gleaming, laminated covers and sprightly interiors belie their origins. Eighteen years ago, after shuttling around Manhattan, the Cirkers settled on Varick Street, a glum manufacturing area south of Greenwich Village. The industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail...
Sadat had arrived in Washington feeling and looking glum about the fate of the peace initiative that he had begun with his historic visit to Jerusalem last November. "Carter found Sadat discouraged and demoralized over the slowness of progress," said one high Administration official. "Sadat's feelings seemed genuine and deep." At secluded Camp David, President Carter worked hard to "energize" Sadat, recalled one aide, reminding him that setbacks were inevitable and assuring him of U.S. support. Carter was effusive in his praise, even calling the Egyptian "the world's foremost peacemaker...
Meanwhile, the domestic picture remains glum. Last week Chairman Edgar B. Speer of U.S. Steel said that his com pany would eventually have to close down its Youngstown, Ohio, operation, which currently employs 5,000 workers. It is clear that the Youngstown plants, with their ancient machinery, have also become geographically obsolete. Even if the Administration's trigger-price scheme succeeds, older plants like Youngstown's are unlikely to be salvageable...