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Detroit School Superintendent Arthur Jefferson was a leading candidate for the vacant top job in the Chicago school system. He turned it down. No wonder. The nation's third largest school system, with 458,000 students, is racked by money problems. It will close ten schools this month, and a third of the extracurricular programs have been canceled. Unless fur ther budget cuts are made, the system faces a projected $46 million deficit. Convinced that no outsider could cope with Chicago politics, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, along with the five black members of the city's eleven-member...
DIED. Fawn McKay Brodie, 65, historian whose 1974 psychobiography Thomas Jefferson: an Intimate History alleged that the nation's third President had a 38-year love affair with a black slave woman named Sally Hemings, who bore him five children; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
They poke their 9-ft.-long, rubber-sheathed necks toward the row of automobile frames. From their beaks, a blinding shower of sparks streams forth. The escape of compressed air creates a loud hissing sound. This is Chrysler's sprawling 145-acre Jefferson plant in East Detroit, where the trouble-ridden firm is building the new K-cars-the Plymouth Reliant and Dodge Aries-that it hopes will save its future. Once 200 welders with their masks and welding guns used to work on such an assembly line. Here there are no welders in sight; there are only...
...mathematical logic can be reduced to various combinations of zero and one, these revolutionary upheavals in human society are clearly vis ible in the distance. Indeed, they can be seen already in the birdlike contraptions that poke their fiery beaks into the un finished steel frames at the Jefferson plant in East Detroit...
...jobs for workers to be retrained for." That is probably an exaggeration, but Charles Cook, president of the United Auto Workers Local 7, which represents K-car workers at Chrysler's Jefferson plant, is equally suspicious. Says he: "Our workers are not worried now about robots taking their jobs, but once the company gets more of those goddam things working, we'll have problems...