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Johnson Elementary School in Benton Harbor, Mich., is a one-story building that sits a few hundred yards east of Interstate 94, the heavily traveled highway between Chicago and Detroit. The impoverished school district does not have a sign to put on the building. But in the small lobby, which doubles as the school's library, there is an award from the Michigan Department of Education congratulating the school's fourth-graders for scoring 20% higher than their predecessors on a state assessment test. Beside the plaque, in bold construction-paper letters, is the school's motto...
...Benton Harbor, Mich., the adult unemployment rate is 32%, more than half of the city's 14,000 residents are on some form of welfare, and 77% of the 8,900 public school students are either black or Hispanic. Most of the town's central business district is boarded up. Benton Harbor's students had scored 40% below the statewide average for the past five years. Two years ago, with solid support in the community, Superintendent James Hawkins began a program that requires every student to master basic minimal skills before being promoted to the next grade...
...accusations that key aides were connected with narcotics. Those allegations are just now being cleared up after many months and $200,000, leading many to speculate that the accusations were a well-timed frame-up. Georgia State Senator Julian Bond, Atlanta Mayor Andrew Young, or Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.), could also have run on the "rainbow platform"; but all decided not to. As for the possibility of a leftist coalition strategy led by a non-Black candidate, Alan Cranston lacks the strength with Blacks, Latinos, and progressive labor, while Gary Hart lacks the necessary political impact. By elimination...
Daddy may be a political superstar, but Actress Patti Davis, 30, has lately been less concerned with Ronald Reagan's career than with carving out her own constituency. Her recent activities range from a stint in summer stock, where she starred in a Traverse City, Mich., production of Vanities, to a more glamorous gig posing for British Photographer Patrick Lichfield in nearly $1 million worth of diamond, emerald and platinum jewels. The idea for the photos came from Olga Rostropovich, the daughter of Conductor-Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, who persuaded a gaggle of international beauties to sparkle for Lichfield. Among...
...managers of the rival firm admitted sifting through trash containers outside Tennant's Oakland, Calif., office for sales leads. General Motors transplanted a grove of 30-ft. evergreens to block a favored vantage point of photographers trying to shoot long-range pictures of new models at its Milford, Mich., test track...