Word: telling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard hockey team relaxes during its weekend off, we'll tell you about Mike Vukonich, a sophomore center of the top-ranked Crimson team...
Statistics tell some of that story. The past decade has seen a 52% increase in the number of black managers, professionals, technicians and government officials. The gap between black and white median income is wider now than it was in the late 1970s -- largely because blacks did not recover from the last recession as completely as whites did. Still, roughly one-third of all black households have solidly middle-class incomes of $35,000 or more, compared with about 70% of all white households. Blacks manage the department stores that once rejected their patronage. They make decisions at corporations where...
BILLY BATHGATE by E.L. Doctorow (Random House; $19.95). A fictional Bronx boy, circa 1935, is accepted into the inner councils of the infamous Dutch Schultz gang and survives murderous adventures to tell an incendiary tale...
That was in 1972, and Nunn proved then that he can play politics with the best of them. With Uncle Carl's help, Nunn visited Washington and was able to tell Georgians that if he was elected he would be put on the Armed Services Committee. I have "assurances," he said cryptically. By primary day, Nunn had the support of both arch-conservative Lester Maddox and black activist Julian Bond. After defeating Carter's man -- a Harvard-educated lawyer whom Nunn chided for being "too used to air-conditioned rooms in Eastern Ivy League schools" -- Nunn faced a conservative Republican...
Currently most school districts tell parents which public school their children must attend. It could be a school down the block or one across town in need of better racial balance. The problem, critics argue, is that parents have no say, and even bad schools are rewarded with full student bodies and tax revenues. That is beginning to change. In locations as diverse as New York's East Harlem, San Francisco and Cambridge, Mass., parents are now free to select what they judge to be the best public school in their district. Minnesota goes even further. It is phasing...