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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Daniel Schorr, the former CBS newsman who leaked a House Select Intelligence Committee report to the press, on his new career as a syndicated columnist: "I must overcome too much exposure as a story and get back to being a reporter...
...games keep growing and becoming more realistic, we will no longer need technical schools. Just select an occupation, play the game for a couple of years and have the company send us a diploma...
...DIRECTOR choosing to make a film on the experiences of artists and the frustrations and rewards peculiar to their art form must weigh two choices in picking his leads. The filmmaker can select a real-life performer from that art form and use the artist in the lead, hoping that sensitive direction will help the artist meet the unfamiliar demands of acting. Nicholas Roeg largely succeeded with this approach when he gambled on Mick Jagger as an aging rocker in the starring role of Performance, but other directors have usually obtained mixed results. Alternatively, the filmmaker can settle...
...schools select their students solely on the basis of scores on the entrance exams, but also admit qualified minority students with slightly lower test scores than their white counterparts. Overall, the three schools are 60 per cent white, 40 per cent black and hispanic. Since these figures do not reflect the racial make-up of the city's public school population (55 per cent black and hispanic and 45 per cent white) the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) has filed suit against the schools on charges of discrimination against minority students. OCR wants the entrance exams changed, and wants...
...Massachusetts Senate failed to vote on the Judicial Reform Bill, the modified product of a Select Committee on Judicial Needs chaired by Archibald Cox '34, before the end of the 1977 session of the Legislature on Tuesday night...