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...white perspective" of the press, the 1968 report concluded, "The painful process of readjustment that is required of the American media must begin now." Last week many of the nation's top news executives attended the 13th annual convention of the National Association of Black Journalists in St. Louis to assess the progress of minority journalists in the 20 years since the report. The verdict: decidedly mixed...
...other hand, Bruce Cook, Democratic state central committeeman for St. Clair County, recalls a coal miner telling him that "once a guy makes $30,000 a year, he buys a riding lawn mower and votes Republican." These voters, many of them Reagan Democrats, are conservative on social issues. Cook admits that Dukakis' veto of a compulsory Pledge of Allegiance to the flag is not going to help. But he counters by asserting, "Dan Quayle really hurts Bush with these people. They are macho, patriotic people who are working really hard to send their kids to college," qualities they...
...were intrigued last year when the R.J. Reynolds tobacco company disclosed that it had developed a virtually smokeless cigarette. Now cigarette users can decide whether the product is like the real thing. Last week Reynolds said that beginning Oct. 1 it will test-market its new brand, Premier, in St. Louis, Phoenix and Tucson. The user lights Premier like a regular cigarette, but a carbon element at its tip warms the enclosed tobacco and flavorings rather than burns them...
Many Tampa Bay residents feel a surge of civic pride as they drive across the new $244 million, 4.1-mile Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the centerpiece of a 13- mile causeway connecting the tip of St. Petersburg's peninsula to the mainland. The span replaces a pair of cantilevered bridges, built in 1954 and 1971. The newer of the two collapsed in 1980, killing 35 people, when it was hit by a freighter during a blinding rainstorm. After the accident, more than 20,000 vehicles a day crowded onto the single remaining two-lane span. Government officials could have repaired...
...that an average of 30% of all unmarried individuals, whether dating, engaged or living together, have been involved in physical aggression with the opposite sex. "Courtship violence is a more serious problem than spouse abuse in our society," says James Makepeace, a professor of sociology at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota. "Young people don't have the economic resources or power to get the help they need...