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...Knicks-Bullets series promises to be a great one. The matchups are intense. Bill Bradley will go against ex-Knick Mike Riordan. Last year, Dollar Bill smothered Riordan so it's Riordan's chance for revenge...
...result is that the quality of education in Detroit has suffered enormously. Says Mary Ellen Riordan, president of the Detroit teachers federation: "Kids are jammed into schools so that it's almost impossible to handle them. You see 200 kids in a 'study hall' which is nothing more than the balcony of the auditorium-with the orchestra practicing onstage; you see 2,000 kids shoved through a 200-capacity lunchroom in 22-minute shifts. In a lot of places, school amounts to nothing more today than 13 years of baby-sitting...
Strike Talk. The cut will reduce the teacher payroll by 35%. "Unmanageable and unthinkable-we can't accept this," declared Mary Ellen Riordan, president of the American Federation of Teachers in Detroit, many of whose 11,500 members began talking about a strike. Besides, she said, the state will not permit an "illegal" cut in the school term. If not, retorted Superintendent Wolfe, "they'll have to come up with the wherewithal...
...WINSLOW, ARIZ. A tear in the metal roof of the lead trailer has orsened, so in the 25 minutes we stop here, a maintenance crew makes a quick patch. From Winslow the line climbs again to its highest point at Riordan, the 7,313-ft. Arizona Divide. On a fast train like the Super C the crews get a full day's pay for as little as 2½ hours on the railroad. The men lay over in Seligman; if they are not assigned a return run within 16 hours their pay starts again The pay is good...
...Pigs. Even in a nation increasingly numbed by violence, there is something particularly chilling about the specter of widespread assault on the men in blue. Says James Riordan, chief of the patrol division for the Chicago police: "People believe that an attack on policemen is really an attack on society. It's the symbol of authority that's being attacked." Clarence Coster, of the Justice Department's Law Enforcement Assistance Administration, agrees: "It's this whole confrontation with the Establishment, and the policeman is the most visible part of that Establishment...