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...third largest school system, where 27,000 teachers shut down all of the city's 666 public schools preventing 530,000 pupils from attending classes. In Pennsylvania, strikes closed 25 of the state's 505 school districts, and teachers walked picket lines in one-third of Rhode Island's school districts. Schools were shut down in Berkeley, Calif., Wilmington, Del., and dozens of other cities. In hundreds of districts, teachers began the school year at work without contracts, awaiting the outcome of bargaining sessions that seemed hopelessly deadlocked. Strikes also loomed in New York City and Boston...
...Congress, the diversions of summer are over. After summitry at Helsinki, vacationing in the Rockies and politicking in the Midwest, Ford returned to an increasingly political Washington approaching the start of an election year. At week's end he took to the skies again, flying into Maine and Rhode Island for more speeches, but that excursion would provide only a brief respite. Congress, too, will end its vacation this week, and as the capital stirs back into life, it finds the nation's worst problems persisting...
...Harvard is no Juilliard, no Rhode Island School of Design, no California Institute for Arts, and for that matter, no Yale. But like just about everything else at Harvard, no matter what the rules do and don't says, just about anything is possible
...attrition rate is still high, and it is even beginning to include some of beer's biggest names. Falstaff Brewing of St. Louis, for instance, had raised itself to fifth place in 1972 by swallowing, over a period of years, brewers of such popular regional beers as Rhode Island's Narragansett and New Jersey's Ballantine. The expansion cost dearly: Falstaff lost a total of $11.9 million in 1972 and 1973 alone. This spring Paul Kalmanovitz, owner of San Francisco's General Brewing Co., bought control of Falstaff for $10 million. Other 1975 brewery turnovers: Theodore...
...early November the FBI had arrested four people in Massachusetts and located a fifth in a Rhode Island prison. Another had turned himself in. One was still at large. He hasn't been heard from since...