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...ahead. This is largely due to its new (and youngest ever) C.N.O. Bud Zumwalt, 50, has thrown his energy into what he calls "people programs" throughout the service. Insisting that his men rate far higher than hardware, he even made a private deal with the Pentagon to take $20 million???enough to keep four or five destroyers functioning for a year?out of his budget if the Defense Department would match it and use the combined $40 million to build new housing units for Navy families. An admiral who would rather give his men new homes than sustain some ships...
More than one out of every four Americans?almost 58 million???is attending some kind of school today. Though education is and will remain primarily a state and local responsibility, the Federal Government can do more to widen and improve the educational prospects of every American. In the elementary and secondary schools, the chief object of its attention must for the immediate future remain the ghetto child. One of its top research targets should be how to educate the black child of the inner city; no one has yet found a very good answer. Truly effective ghetto education...
...Irish had not beaten State in ten years; inside the Notre Dame stadium, Athletic Director Edward ("Moose") Krause surveyed the sellout crowd of 59,265 and sighed: "We could have sold 250,000 tickets to this game." He could have sold a million???to all the Americans, the vast Subway Alumni, to whom Notre Dame is and always has been the one and only college football team. To the Bronx taxi driver who has never seen the inside of a college but lights a candle to Our Lady every Friday night. To the San Francisco dock walloper who hasn...
...down South. Where could he buy a newspaper? Try New Orleans, Kander suggested. Newhouse did. And just two weeks after that long-distance phone call, U.S. journalism's smallest publisher (5 ft. 3 in., 136 Ibs.) closed the biggest deal in U.S. journalistic history. For $42 million???more than three times what the Louisiana Territory cost the U.S. in 1803?Newhouse bought both of New Orleans' papers: the morning Times-Picayune (circ. 195,151 daily, 307,-983 Sunday) and its evening companion, the States-Item...
...economics of existence continues to clamp down on U.S. newspapers, combining into chains seems the surest chance for survival. Fifty years ago, the eight U.S. newspaper groups then in existence controlled 10% of total daily circulation. Today there are 118 chains, with a combined circulation of 27.4 million???almost half the total daily circulation in the U.S. (59,200,000). Since chains not only stifle competition but kill newspapers (generally by merger), their effect has been dramatic. From a high-water mark of 2,461 daily papers in 1916, the number has steadily fallen, to 1,760 today...