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...including Denver Post Cartoonist Pat Oliphant and Washington Post Writer Judy Bachrach, added a second op-ed page and started a morning edition. National and international coverage -long a weak point-were bolstered with the worldwide resources of the Time-Life News Service. Five new community editions broadened the metropolitan coverage. Under Editor Murray J. Gart, 56, former chief of the Time-Life News Service, the Star stressed hard news and straightforward reporting over fancy writing and instant analysis. The paper won two Pulitzer Prizes (for editorials in 1979 and criticism in 1981) and numerous other awards. Said Henry Grunwald...
According to Gene Cook, Mud Hen general manager, folks like Ford and Pfund have become more prevalent since the onset of the baseball strike--he's received many inquiries from groups hundreds of miles away, who travel en masse to Toledo. About 15 people from the metropolitan Detroit area, who consider themselves "baseball fanatics," were on hand Saturday, having travelled via caravan to the gravel lot--free parking--outside the stadium...
...system seems closer to stopping dead in its tracks than New York City's, the largest in the nation with 5 million daily passengers. With an operating deficit of $500 million for this fiscal year, the state's Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) two weeks ago upped subway and bus fares from 60? to 75? and raised the prices of commuter tickets on Conrail and the Long Island Railroad by an average of 25%. The MTA also threatened to hike fares to $1 by mid-July unless the state legislature covered an estimated shortfall of $331 million The legislature...
...three years as director, the Czech-born Kylian, 34, has made the Netherlands Dance Theater one of the most inventive and physically exciting companies around. At the Metropolitan Opera House last week, the multinational troupe (nearly half the 32 dancers are American) offered six Kylian works that enthralled the New York City dance audience, the world's toughest...
...California Achievement Tests, Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, Comprehensive Tests of Basic Skills, Metropolitan Achievement Tests...