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Crumbling rail service also adds to food costs. In the 1950s a carload of Bartlett pears loaded in Sacramento reached New York in 6½ days; today the journey often takes from nine to eleven days. Another cost fattener: Federal Trade Commission rules on discounting, required by the Robinson-Patman Act, involve so much red tape that they discourage wholesalers from giving price breaks to supermarkets that place large orders. The aim is to help protect small stores, which account for two-thirds of the nation's 200,000 grocery outlets, from price competition...
...former managing director of the monthly San Francisco, and Consulting Editor Rosalie Muller Wright, former editor of womenSports-across the country to talk publishing with some successful pros. Among them have been New York magazine Editor Clay Felker, New Times Publisher George Hirsch, Ms. Co-Founder Gloria Steinem and Sacramento Bee Managing Editor Frank McCulloch, a former TIME bureau chief who successfully launched the innovative monthly Learning. Coppola did not like what he heard. "Publishing is worse than the movie business-the egos, the feeling that you've stepped in somebody else's terrain," he says. "I sensed...
Liberal Opposition. Partly because of Ford's appeal, opposition to the refugees dwindled rapidly. There were, of course, unfortunate exceptions. In California an organization of farmers and businessmen asked a Sacramento federal judge to block the refugee resettlement program on the rather ridiculous grounds that among other things, Government officials had not issued a statement on the program's impact on the U.S. environment. Chicago Civil Rights Leader Jesse Jackson said that the refugees should be kept out of the U.S. because "there are now nearly 9 million jobless in this nation...
Neither local politicians nor the anesthesiologists-who last week marched on the state capitol in Sacramento to demand legislative action-see any speedy end to the stalemate. In fact, the crisis in California worsened last week. Supporting the San Francisco protest, anesthesiologists in the Los Angeles area took a day off, leaving most operating rooms in 275 hospitals virtually empty...
...summary, of the ten cities which have studied the effects of busing on the achievement levels of school children, one shows moderate gains (Sacramento), two showed mixed results (Hartford/New Haven, Rochester), three are inconclusive (Buffalo, Evanston, White Plains) and four show either houses or no significant gains (Ann Arbor, Berkeley, Boston, Riversides). In every city studied busing failed to reduce the gap between black and white achievement. In fact most cities reported that the achievement gap had grown even larger after busing. Scholars who have reviewed the evidence, including Armor, Bell, Edmonds, Giazer, and St. John, have concluded that using...