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...first game of the 1977 World Series came to a close, the Yankees went home winners over the Los Angeles Dodgers, 4-3. Paul Blair, the hero of the Yankees' thrilling victory over the Kansas City Royals just three nights ago, did it again as he knocked in Willie Randolph with a ground single to left field...
...Randolph said the problem of quotas is a false issue because "critics translate goals into quota...
...Nancy Randolph, special assistant to President Bok in charge of overseeing Harvard's affirmative action program, said yesterday the brief appears to encourage affirmative action, and is a valuable show of support from the federal government...
...cities seems fated to increase because the birth rate among blacks is 51% higher than among whites. There are other reasons for this continuing concentration: lingering discrimination on the part of the white majority, a crippling absence of education, training and opportunity among the black minority. Says Randolph Taylor, a Presbyterian minister who works among the underclass in Charlotte, N.C.: "How one feels about society depends on whether one thinks that door may some day open. The whites are generally staying with the system on the basis of hope...
Fowler boomed out of Colorado in 1918, a tall, ruggedly handsome frontiersman who had earned his journalistic spurs on the brassy Denver Post. He soon became an ornament on William Randolph Hearst's New York American, along with Damon Runyon and Ring Lardner. Fowler's style was purple but compassionate: when Ruth Brown Snyder and her paramour Judd Gray were electrocuted at Sing Sing in 1928, his account of the execution-reprinted in full in this book-was a bitter indictment of capital punishment...