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...major piece of social legislation, for within a six-year period, it will virtually equalize the per-pupil spending for education throughout the state and thus go a long way toward equalizing education in the cities, suburbs and rural areas. Anderson has had other victories. All legislative meetings of any kind must now be open to the public?no more private executive sessions in the legislature. A full-time ombudsman has been established in the corrections department. The magnificent St. Croix River has been added to the National Scenic River System. Voter registration has in effect been abolished. Anderson...
...roads leading to Athens were plastered with billboards saying NAI (yes) in bold white against a blue background with the legend VOTE YES FOR DEMOCRACY. IT IS NOW IN YOUR HANDS. Having quelled last May's naval revolt against his junta's six-year rule and deposed exiled King Constantine, Greek Strongman George Papadopoulos offered his countrymen last Sunday a chance to vote-but not much of a choice...
McGuane has been married for eleven years to a tiny, pretty girl who is a direct descendant of Davy Crockett. They have a six-year old son, Thomas IV. Whether on their 40-acre ranch outside Livingston, Mont., or in Key West, the McGuanes are a refuge for a shifting population of the lonely, itinerant or freaked out. "We're everyone's straight friend," he says. "I love the fact that my household is beautifully run. But I need chaos too, so I live near the ocean or the wilderness. I have a mortal fear of being housebroken...
...Done. He is a get-it-done member of a dizzying array of cultural boards and commissions from the Harlem Cultural Council to the National Council on the Arts, which elected him to a six-year membership last summer. He has taught the history of jazz at the Manhattan School of Music, and is working toward a Ph.D. in musicology at the University of Massachusetts. He has made more than 30 recordings (some of which, he concedes, "are among the best-kept secrets in jazz"), written a dozen books on jazz piano playing and composed 300 songs...
...hilarity. Out of retirement came 81-year-old former Premier Antoine Pinay, a cautious conservative who is remembered chiefly as the "savior of the franc" while serving as De Gaulle's Finance Minister. Critics charge that Pinay's appointment is purely political; he is honorary president of the Républicains Indépendants, the Gaullists' chief allies in government. "We would have taken him more seriously," remarked the satirical magazine Le Canard Enchaine, "if he had been five or six years older." Noting that Pinay starts his six-year, $28,000-a-year job in early...