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When a howling white mob tried to prevent Charlayne Hunter from entering the hitherto segregated University of Georgia in 1961, a broad-shouldered black cleared a path for her by using his 6-ft. 4½-in. body as a battering ram. He was a young (25) law clerk named Vernon Eulion Jordan Jr. Since then Jordan has moderated his tactics, but he has kept on pushing just as forcefully for black rights and equal opportunity. At the same time, he has become, in the words of Mitchell Sviridoff, a vice president of the Ford Foundation, "one of the great...
Japan is quietly trying to displace the U.S., where integrated circuits were developed early in the 1960s, as the world's leading designer and producer of computer hardware. Already Japanese companies control nearly 25% of the world chip market. Japanese manufacturers have made serious inroads in the 16K RAM (for random access memory) chip, which is capable of containing 16,384 separate bits of information. Japanese producers now control 40% of that U.S. market...
...Brad Bauer hadn't singled in an unearned run in the bottom of the ninth, both fanatics who braved the elements to the end might have left the Candlestick-of-the-East emptyhanded. Luckily, Chuck Marshall reached base on a miscue by Ram shortstop Steve Galuska, moved to second on a passed ball and trudged home two outs later on a Bauer liner for the only Crimson tally...
...Gandhi had delivered her most crushing blow to Jagjivan Ram's Janata Party, which had emerged triumphant in the 1977 election. Though Janata had split into two factions last summer, pundits favored Ram to become Prime Minister as head of a coalition government. Ram was re-elected to Parliament last week, but his party picked up only 31 seats, compared with 295 in 1977. Particularly mortifying to Ram, an Untouchable, was the fact that the majority of his 85 million fellow harijans had voted for the party of Mrs. Gandhi, an upper-class Brahmin...
After receiving congratulations from Ram and Singh, Mrs. Gandhi proceeded to New Delhi's imposing Parliament House. Dressed for the occasion in a shiny new red and gold sari, she received bouquets of roses and garlands of white flowers from the 350 legislators who had been elected under her leadership. President Neelam Sanjiva Reddy then formally invited her to form a government...