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Parks claims the city has gone without any educational leaders since the era of Horace Mann. The present school committee won election in 1975 with 3 moderates taking control. They no longer publicly race-bait and plunder the system in the fashion of their predecessors, but David I. Finegan. John McDonough and Kathleen Sullivan have proven to be a disappointment. Unpaid school committee membership is usually regarded as a springboard for higher office; with visions of the mayoralty dancing in their heads, the committee members failed to rise above the soap box and job recommendation mentality...
...against Mandel, became 11 to 1 and stayed there for six days. The lone holdout told newsmen afterward that he believed the parties were innocent as a matter of conscience, if not as a matter of law. The majority's view was expressed by Juror William H. Mann: "I don't care how good friends all of them were, you don't do all those favors without getting something in return...
...scene from Charlie's Angels was rewritten to make each angel not only look but also sound different. "You must know that one character will say a line one way and another would say it differently," Silverman told the producers. "You must define these characters better." Originally, Writer Abby Mann wanted Kojak to be more human and more fallible. But Silverman wanted him tailored to fit the style of Star Telly Savalas. Now, complains Mann, who is no longer involved in the Kojak series, "Kojak is imperturbable. He's always right. He has become exactly the reverse of what...
...vice, mired in the flesh and drug trades and fast fading into the sunset of American cultural history. Now Hollywood is trying to stage a comeback-a drive to revive a decayed area that still attracts 3 million tourists a year eager to see such bits of Americana as Mann's-formerly Grauman's-Chinese Theater and the footprints and signatures of movie stars immortalized in concrete. Says Mike Sims, director of the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce: "We've got stars in the sidewalk, but iron bars on the doors...
Murray Gell-Mann, Sc.D., physicist. Louise Nevelson, L.H.D., sculptor. Isaac Stern, Mus.D., violinist...