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...Government should find no shortage of buyers. Land has always been an important part of the American dream. The settlers began by clearing the forests around Jamestown, Va., 350 years ago. Then they crossed the continent like a slow but inexorable army, laying claim to property to build homes, to grow food, to graze cattle, to protect water supplies. Their eagerness was understandable. Never mind how large and grand the continent of North America was, the amount of land was finite. Once it was occupied, there was no way to create any more...
Belatedly, Coors has geared up to establish national distribution by building a second brewery near Elkton, Va., but slow sales have forced the plans to be shelved for the time being. More immediately, the brewer has begun advertising heavily, and is in the process of adding a new superpremium brand, Herman Joseph's 1868. Insists Company President Joseph Coors: "We will fight tooth and nail to improve our market, and we're going to survive...
Weirton, W. Va., was not exactly named "in honor" of Ernest T. Weir. Rather, when Weir bought a tract of farm land in the state's panhandle in 1909 and built a sprawling steelmaking complex, he needed people and houses to go along with his factory. Thus the town was born. Today Weirton Steel Co. is a division of National Steel Corp., but a majority of the labor force in Weirton (pop. 25,536) still works in the rumbling, fuming steelworks along Main Street. "It's sink or swim together," says Mary Brula, a bank teller whose husband...
...White House task force, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services intervened. In addition to promising to pay off Meharry's $29 million construction loan for Hubbard Hospital, HHS pointedly instructed the U.S. Veterans Administration to expand an affiliation between at least one of the large VA medical centers in the Nashville area and Meharry. Said HHS Secretary Richard Schweiker, in explaining his department's intervention: "Many of Meharry's students have come from disadvantaged economic backgrounds. Its graduates have established a strong record of practicing primary-care medical specialties where they are desperately needed." Federal...
Schweiker's intervention could make the difference. Meharry has had only a limited affiliation with one VA hospital, in Murfreesboro, Tenn., 30 miles from Nashville. Contracts for medical staffing of the Nashville VA hospital have always automatically gone to Vanderbilt University, whose medical school did not graduate its first black M.D. until 1970. (This year 25 of its 418 students are members of minority groups.) Although the VA had a nondiscrimination policy at the time of Vanderbilt's first agreement with the Nashville VA in 1947, exceptions based on "local custom" were used then to segregate black patients...