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Lupo clearly is partial to White and to the hard-nosed liberal politics of pragmatism that White practices. That partisanship unfortunately blinds Lupo to some of White's flaws and leads to some questionable assertions--that White's national aspirations were killed by his stance during the busing crisis rather...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Poor as Political Pawns | 4/15/1977 | See Source »

Concorde means harmony in French. But last week the needle-nosed, Anglo-French supersonic transport was the center of a bitter diplomatic quarrel that could poison transatlantic relations for years. What set off the dispute was the prospect that the Port of New York Authority would finally refuse landing rights...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DIPLOMACY: La Grande Crise Over Concorde | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

Major technological innovations, it seems, have often been rejected by large segments of the public possessed by an almost Luddite aversion to change. That still seems true today. Witness the current international flap over whether the Concorde supersonic passenger jet will be allowed to land at New York City'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Putting Up with the Ugly Duckling | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

It was in that febrile setting that a school-integration plan ordered the busing of children between the city's most antagonistic neighborhoods (Irish Catholic South Boston and black Roxbury). It was resisted by every defiant or foot-dragging means possible by a Boston School Committee that exploited the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Pleasure of Hating | 3/21/1977 | See Source »

But coaches can always find solace in hopes for the future. Lee had special praise for D'agostino, a hard-nosed battler whose one loss came against Yale in a last-ditch struggle for a pin. And D'agostino is only a junior, while sophomore Beling, a fall footballer, looks...

Author: By Bob Baggott, | Title: Matmen Dump On Brown With Second-Stringers | 2/22/1977 | See Source »

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