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Graham, in an Associated Press story of December 29, 1983, went on to insist that, contrary to popular belief, Black children are "probably the best nourished group in the United States." The pediatrician cited as evidence the achievements of Black athletes. Malnutrition exists in certain areas, he said, but hunger among children "is not a national problem...
...standard procedure for the military to conduct thorough investigations of tragedies like the one in Beirut. Pentagon officials insist that such inquiries do not make officers less inclined to act boldly in the field. Rather, they are seen as making officers more aware of their supervisory responsibilities...
...this month, when local temperatures typically hover at 20° or 30°F. Still, the designers of the ingenious heating system, Henry Eggert and Howard McKew of Shooshanian Engineering Associates of Boston, are confident that teeth will not chatter nor pipes freeze. Indeed, they insist, the eight-story, 880,000-sq.-ft., redbrick Transportation Building will stay a comfortable 72°F all year round...
...Thoroughbred Racing Associations. It is a three-horse race: the Woodward and Jockey Club Gold Cup winner Slew O'Gold, the French filly All Along and Devil's Bag. Only Secretariat ever won it at two, when the older candidates were weaker. So some voters may insist on seeing Devil's Bag challenged first. "Some day we're going to have to call on him," says Stephens, "and you'll see a horse who'll fight back." As it happens, the second most impressive two-year-old, Swale, is another pupil of Woody...
Increasingly, and perhaps irreversibly, audiences for American mainstream music will depend, even insist, on each song's being a full audiovisual confrontation. Why should sound alone be enough when sight is only as far away as the TV set or the video machine? Whole generations have had their brains fried with a cathode ray tube, a condition that creates a certain impatience and shortness of attention when limited to aural input. Posterity can rest easy-as Billy Joel points out, "Beethoven didn't have no videos, and he's been hanging in there"-but for rockers, popsters...