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Last week the black leaders' pentup discontent broke out in a wave of complaints that forced the President to make an extraordinary defense of his urban policies before a black audience and later at a televised press conference. "I have no apologies," Carter gamely insisted. "We haven't done everything we would like to do, nor have we done everything that we are going to do." At the same time, he made plain that he considered much of the criticism to be outright demagoguery...
Armistead Maupin, the author of the often lurid, 14-month-old Tales of the City, is regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Boswell: "I haven't written anything that hasn't happened -God knows that in San Francisco you don't have to make it up." San Francisco suburbanites had their own serial in the Pacific Sun until its author, Cyra McFadden, got a book contract and published The Serial (Knopf; $4.95), a fast-selling, funny, 52-chapter account of Living Together Relationships and Creative Divorce Groups in Marin County...
...feels. I'm an analytical sailor." But his restlessness on board and his penchant for consulting everyone on tactical decisions rattled his sailors. Enterprise Crewman Andy MacGowan explains: "The problem with North's style is that things happen so fast in a race. You haven't got the luxury of time." Still, North seems to have settled down in recent weeks, and the crew is, at last, becoming cohesive: Enterprise's execution, marked by sloppiness and uncertainty in the early going, has become much crisper and quicker. As a result, during July Enterprise won seven races...
That, at least, is the purpose of four coeds and a male classics professor who have filed a class action in U.S. District Court, New Haven, charging Yale University with sex discrimination for tolerating sexual coercion of female students by male teachers. (The classics professor claimed that his colleagues' philandering had created "an atmosphere poisoned by distrust" which had made effective teaching impossible.) The suit names two alleged faculty offenders, but not as defendants. Instead, the court is asked to order Yale to set up a formal grievance procedure for such complaints, complete with disciplinary authority over professors found...
...German marks and 264.475 Japanese yen. The effect has been to run up the value of these currencies, thus making imports cheaper hi West Germany and Japan-which has been Blumenthal's goal all along. Says a Treasury spqkes-man: "Let's just say that while we haven't been pushing the dollar down, its drop is not altogether unwelcome either...