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...PART OF TEXAS in which these children live, work play and write is not the stark and barren flatland of cliche. Instead the area, generally termed the "Hill Country", is one of the more beautiful parts of Texas packed with culture and "warm material" for the imagination to feed on: it does not suffer from the dryness that afflicts other parts of the state. The starkness resides, instead, in the meager conditions under which these children must live...
...care for the new Philip A. Hart Senate Office Building [Jan. 17]. But I now understand from your critique the architectural rationale behind the stark, costly structure...
...their way to violate two federal laws by keeping blacks off the municipal payroll and preventing blacks from moving into town at all. U.S. Attorney Dan Webb calls it perhaps "the most egregious, aggravated case of race discrimination" his office has ever prosecuted. The statistical evidence is stark. The 1980 census found only 74 blacks in a population of 61,232, despite the fact that adjacent Chicago is 40% black. Not one of Cicero's schoolchildren is black. Nor are any of its 400 municipal workers, since Cicero requires that its employees live there for a year before they...
Summers resolutely states that he has not yet been too frustrated by the vastness and intractability of the Washington bureaucracy, a stark contrast to the ivory tower existence he led at Harvard and MIT. But one associate said that in general all of Feldstein's new recruits had expected a greater part in the interagency discussion process on various issues. Issues were simply bubbling up in cabinet level meetings without a lot of preliminary staff work, the official said...
...Reddest Face: That belonging to Ray Stark, who produced, and overproduced, the movie version of Annie, which was supposed to be a box-office bonanza but barely covered its $52 million production and marketing costs...