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...Black districts following the 1970 census. In the first election following redistricting as a result of the 1980 census, the number of Black representatives in Congress increased from 17 in 1981 to 20 in 1983. There are now 40 Blacks in Congress--39 in the House, including Eleanor Holmes Norton, a nonvoting member representing the District of Columbia, and one senatior, Carol Moseley-Braun, a Democrat from Illinois. All but one of these Black representatives are Democrats...
...debut short-story collection from Thomas Beller (Norton; 205 pages; $21) is peopled with characters plucked straight from a hyperexposed world of young New Yorkers hopelessly flustered by attraction, ever fearful of love. These are well trodden streets, and the book at first glance appears as though it might be nothing more than the chic literary equivalent of the TV comedy "Friends." But Beller's great accomplishment, says TIME's Ginia Bellafante, "is that he has managed to weave a series of touching and exceptionally memorable tales from this familiar milieu...
DIED. EVELYN NORTON LINCOLN, 85, personal secretary to John Kennedy; in Washington. Lincoln devoted herself to the future President from his early days in Congress to his last day in Dallas (where she rode in the fatal motorcade); she would continue to visit his grave on each anniversary of his death. Her memoirs, My Twelve Years with John F. Kennedy and Kennedy and Johnson, were best sellers...
...Gordimer, this year's Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard, has reminded her audiences repeatedly, contradictions are the stuff of life...
Today at 4:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre, Nadine Gordimer will deliver a lecture titled, "That Other World That Was the World." The talk, which concludes her Norton lecture series "Writing and Being," will focus on her ties to South Africa