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...suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing a community-minded foundation...
...reasons for the erratic movements of the TWA hijackers (between Beirut and Algiers)," said Burch. CBS, A.P. and U.P.I. refrained from carrying the news until it had been widely reported. "We released the information when we were confident it would not encourage the hijackers to harm the hostages," said Joan Richman, a CBS News vice president...
...University's 30 Overseers, under President Joan T. Bok '51, primarily are responsible for managing the University's visiting committees, composed of alumni interested in a certain academic departments, through which the board exercises some control over academic programs...
...Today's Friedman admits, "changed the face of morning television." Hartman's abundant curiosity and sense of wonderment still serve him well after all these years; his narration of a flight he took in a B-1 bomber last year vividly captured the sights, sounds and fears. Joan Lunden, who has shared a homey set with Hartman since 1980, has sharpened what once were rather dull interviewing skills. Yet the duo rarely engage in the spontaneous banter of Gumpaul...
...England Electric System President Joan T. Bok '55 is also the president of the 30-member Board of Overseers, a largely ceremonial, alumni-elected body which rubber-stamps Corporation decisions. Bok--no relation to President Derek C. Bok--sits on the board of Worcester based Norton Company, a billion-dollar manufacturer of abrasives, chemicals, diamond drilling products and other goods. Company spokesman Francis J. Doherty says 1400 of the company's 19,000 employees work at Norton's South Africa manufacturing facilities. The company has the top rating for adhering to the Sullivan Principles, Doherty says...