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...sure the cohesion is there. The situation is tenuous now," says State Rep. Saundra Graham, chairperson of the Massachusetts Twentieth Anniversary Mobilization, which organized the march and hopes to organize a united front of progressive groups from it. Nationally, the march's organizers have called for a "New Coalition of Conscience" to "provide a catalyst for powerful and much needed social changes in this nation." Last week Graham and a steering committee of interest groups met to evaluate the march and decide whether to fund a local coalition...
...staff began having second thoughts in the late 1970s about the earlier decision. By removing the networks as sources of financing for new TV shows, the commission in effect turned production almost totally over to the major studios like Paramount, Universal, Warner Bros, and Twentieth Century-Fox, and to the big independents like MTM, Lorimar and Spelling, who are able to afford the megabucks necessary to launch a new program. That, reasoned the staff in a 1980 report, simply concentrated the program supply power in fewer hands instead of dispersing...
Defaults on tax-exempt municipal bonds like those issued on Whoops have been relatively infrequent and have usually involved smallish sums. Only 685 defaults have occurred since 1940, out of 301,016 municipal bond issues. In terms of money lost, each of the three largest were around one-twentieth the size of last week's fizzle. The West Virginia Turnpike Commission defaulted on $133 million in bonds in 1958. Chicago's Calumet Skyway collapsed under bond indebtedness of $101 million in 1963, and investors were short-changed in 1978 when the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Tunnel Commission reneged...
...Short-term bilingual education, which may offer a full curriculum but is directed toward moving students into English-language classes as rapidly as possible. In a report last month by a Twentieth Century Fund task force, members who were disillusioned with the performance of elaborate bilingual programs urged diversion of federal funds to the teaching of English. The panel held: "Schoolchildren will never swim in the American mainstream unless they are fluent in English...
Throughout his career in quantum electrodynamics, nuclear physics, and the physics of elementary particles. Weisskopf wrote a large number of scientific papers and books, including his Theoretical Nuclear Physics with John M. Blatt (1952), Knowledge and Wonder (1962), and Physics in the Twentieth Century...