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...Afro-American Cultural Center a year later, as part of an attempt "to act as a catalyst to bring together all the creative efforts of black students in the Boston area," explains Walters. The Cultural Center has since been besieged by its problems and is now struggling to remain solvent. But the Kuumbas keep achieving...
...Labor's more controversial planks through Parliament. As he warned his M.P.s at a caucus last week, "There will have to be priorities." His most pressing problem will be to make arrangements for billions of dollars worth of foreign credit to keep Britain solvent over the next few years. Fulfilling his promise "to get the country back to work" -and seeking to restore business confidence-he ordered an end to the three-day week, which had cost Britain $4.6 billion in lost production and unemployment payments. He also announced a nationwide freeze on residential rents. Labor's legislative...
...Southern Co., a holding company of utilities, is trying to extract sulfur not from smoke but from the coal itself. At a pilot plant near Birmingham, Southern dissolves coal with a recoverable chemical solvent. The coal is filtered to remove impurities and then resolidified. The final product is a clean fuel that has virtually no sulfur or ash and a very high heat value. Cost per ton promises to be competitive...
McGuane is of course a writer, full time, serious and solvent. The daydreams of alternate occupations are part of his openly boyish nature. He has just discovered mortality, for instance. Didn't know it was there before. "I'm like a kid with a strangely ugly new toy. I used to think writers who bore in on it were morbid. Now I think of certain people dying-my wife, my dog, my friends-and it's perfectly unbearable...
...last three years A.C. has proved to be a solvent venture. A new associate general secretary for Continuing Education has been hired. A.C.'s clientele, however, has been primarily an elderly one. The median age of A.C. members falls in the late forties-fifties range where it is about ten years younger at other universities with A.C. programs, as Dartmough, Cornell, Yale. One explanation is the environmental one: Hanover and Ithica offer a country-and-campus package attractive to those who wish to excape an urban environment. Another reason high cost. Younger alumni cannot affort a stiff...