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...today affirmative action also means the imposition of racial, sexual and ethnic quotas. It now includes, for example, Judge W. Arthur Garrity Jr.'s order that one black schoolteacher be hired for every new white teacher until a certain percentage of Boston schoolteachers are black. It includes quotas for firemen and policemen, even though hiring standards had to be lowered to meet the required percentages. Affirmative action quotas now apply in occupations ranging from construction labor...
...Mass. "I see a lot of faces not around any more" says one parishioner. But most of those who remained came to accept-even favor-the new church interior and other innovations. "When all the changes started I was kind of confused and disillusioned at times," says Public School Teacher Terry Hess, "but now I have a better understanding. Years ago I would do things out of fear of the Lord. Now it is out of love...
...Brando does think. When he arrived in Montana for The Missouri Breaks, he had definite ideas for changing his character which he says "was as heavy as potato latke." (Brando's speech is loaded with Yiddishisms, from his days in New York with Stella Adler, the famous acting teacher, and her family. "I'm all Jew," boasts the Protestant-born Brando...
Died. Samuel Eliot Morison, 88, master of the historical narrative, who wrote more than 50 books chronicling American and maritime history; after a stroke; in Boston. A skilled yachtsman and popular Harvard teacher since 1915, he sailed 10,000 miles retracing the course of Columbus for his 1943 Admiral of the Ocean Sea, which won the first of his two Pulitzer Prizes; in World War II he served on a dozen ships (he retired a rear admiral), collecting information for his 15-volume account of U.S. naval operations in that conflict. Critics also acclaimed his two-volume The European Discovery...
...Andover graduate will be a teacher-coach at his alma mater this fall, but right now his mind is on Montreal. As the flag-bedecked cooks ladled food onto plates and a Sousa march blared into the red-white-and-blue hung Quincy cafeteria, someone jokingly asked McCulloh if he was an American...