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...fascist's response," protested the Rev. Jesse Jackson, head of Chicago's Operation Breadbasket (TIME, March 1) and a longtime aide of Martin Luther King. "The mayor may have a killing program for the dreamers, but he has no program that can kill the dreams." Arthur J. Bilek, a former Chicago police lieutenant now administering the criminal justice curriculum at the University of Illinois, said: "A bullet fired into the body of a suspected looter is, after all, a quite irrevocable act." Others blurred the distinction between Daley's kill and maim categories. Said Arnold Sagalyn...
...pros. "We are being engulfed by bluegrass," lamented one of the judges at Union Grove last week. But if the fiddlers' convention can do nothing about the dilution of folk traditions, it can at least draw the line somewhere. Brass instruments and drums are forbidden, and Convention Organizer J. P. Van Hoy says: "Some people a few years ago tried to play rock 'n' roll. We throwed them out on their ears...
...editors of the two papers both owned by Scripps-Howard, it is almost incomprehensible that they are the targets of such criticism. Ever since the 1954 Supreme Court decision banning segregation in the schools they have urged upholding the law of the land. Press-Scimitar Editor Edward J. Meeman was a champion of Negro rights from the 1930s until he retired in the early '60s. Both current editors Frank Ahlgren of the Commercial Appeal and Charles Schneider of the Press-Scimitar, are members of the city's biracial commission, which has tried to smooth the way for peaceful...
Caught between rising costs and ever greater demands for academic excellence, the nation's Roman Catholic parochial schools are in trouble. Last week, an official of the National Catholic Educational Association estimated that in the past year more than 200 schools had shut down. Concurrently, Archbishop Terence J. Cooke of New York announced that he had named an interfaith commission of education and business experts to undertake a survey of his archdiocese's 432 schools. "We must be certain," said Cooke, "that the resources, personnel and facilities of the church are employed in the best possible manner...
...Princeton Astrophysicist Jeremiah Ostriker suggested that the signals might be caused by rapidly rotating white dwarfs with a local disturbance on their surfaces. Signals from the disturbance would sweep across the earth like a lighthouse beacon once during each rotation of such a star. British Astrophysicists Fred Hoyle and J. Narlikar propose that the signals are connected with supernovas, or exploding stars...