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Charley himself, former Pro Football Player Fred Williamson, thinks the controversy is useless and that in fact the change seriously weakens the impact of the title. "Media people are expecting repercussions based on the significance of the word nigger to white people," he says, "but blacks don't have the same reaction to it any more. Changing the name just reflects the insecurity and guilt of some whites who think the niggers in their town will be offended and throw rocks at the theaters." Paramount Vice President Charles Glenn adds: "I wonder what the media would call a film...
According to Bowyer, Kennedy Corporation officials had planned to use piles now supporting MBTA buildings for the related structures. Last month, however, soil engineers working with architect I.M. Pei found the old piles to be useless and new piles prohibitively expensive. Consequently, Bowyer said, related structures aside from a restaurant and souvenir shop would be a 'second-stage' project, when more money will be available...
...Kierstead '50, the executive city editor, was disappointed when reporters came back without "quotes, color, detail, and incident." Without those items, the 5 basic points of the story--Who, What, Where, When, and How--were useless. Bill McCarthy, who managed the news operation, was fond of pointing out to his more heady reporters that "this is a newspaper story you're writing, not a thesis." A long six-part series I wrote once on defects in Boston's tax collection apparatus had a lead on it that probably would have turned James Q. Wilson's head. McCarthy said it turned...
...park lay virtually useless until recently, when antiwar demonstrators chose to break down the fence, chop up the asphalt and plant shrubbery and flowers. Slowly students and townspeople drifted back into the park; they set up a recycling center to collect bottles and cans, and settled down to enjoy the spring air. This time reaction was prudent. The cops ignored the occupation and Chancellor Albert Bowker seems not to want to press the issue...
...finally cast loose from the mother ship, its computer could not fire its small thruster rockets. Thus, Orion could not be sent crashing back onto the moon's surface, where telling shock waves from its impact were to have been recorded by sensitive seismometers. Instead, the now-useless craft was left to orbit indefinitely around the moon...