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...PUBLISHED A LETTER ((NOV. 7)) from Mahin Yazdani responding to your report on "Sex in America" that said, "The world is struggling with war and starvation, and America is preoccupied with sex." But a quick glance at the article suggests that America is preoccupied with talk of sex. The other half of the world -- struggling with starvation, war and overpopulation -- is preoccupied with actually having...
...Mahin Root's father is white; her mother is black. So when the 14-year-old girl tried to register this year as a junior at Page High School in Greensboro, N.C., she faced a problem: a form that asked her to specify her race. Instead of filling in the blank, she left the question unanswered. School officials politely suggested that she make a choice, since the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights requires all public school systems to submit racial data on their students. Mahin, who had attended private schools since moving to Greensboro...
That satisfied school officials, who let Mahin enroll, but not the Washington bureaucrats. They advised Greensboro schools attorney William Caffrey that Mahin should be racially classified by using a "rule of reason" or an "eyeball" test. Caffrey did not consider that helpful. Finally he was told that the Education Department is trying to develop a policy on how to count children of interracial marriages. School officials are now waiting for Washington to apply its own rule of reason...
Scarface takes its title, plot and comic-grotesque tone from a 1932 film directed by Howard Hawks, written by Ben Hecht and John Lee Mahin and starring Paul Muni as a lightly fictionalized, heavily romanticized Al Capone. That Scarface ran 90 minutes; this one ambles along at nearly twice the length. The first film has a screwball-comedy briskness that made Tony an outsized monster, a festering lesion on the body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse...
...later Bill Holden was only too willing to come in on the same ducal terms. Of the rest of the pie, 20% each went to the backers of the whole deal (Mirisch Co.), to the distributor (United Artists), and to Mahin-Rackin. Said Wheeler-Dealer Marty Rackin as Horse Soldiers was being readied for release: "Hollywood's gone crazy. It'll have to find its level again when all this dies down...