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...decision of 1978) or of company job-training programs (as in last summer's Weber ruling), but of a congressional award of a share of federally financed local public works contracts to minority-controlled businesses. The case, on which the nine high court Justices heard oral arguments last week, should help to further define the still murky limits to which affirmative-action programs may go in redressing racial imbalances...
...last week's arguments, the plaintiffs' lawyers maintained that the 10% set-aside was wrong because Congress should order quotas only when it had made "detailed findings" of past discrimination, which it had not done in the case of construction contracts. Moreover, they insisted, the size of the set-aside itself was arbitrary. "Why 10%?" asked one of the attorneys. "Why not 4%-the number of black contractors in the United States?" Fullilove himself is fearful about the lack of restraint on quota setting. A 10% set-aside might conceivably be tolerable, he says, but the problem...
Those must be the scarlet and white silks of the CBS-TV stable that Kristy McNichol, 17, is wearing as she sits astride a big mount named Gilford. The tomboy of the Family sitcom series stars this week in My Old Man, a TV movie in which she is Jo Butler, the track-wise daughter of a down-on-his-luck horse trainer, played by Warren Gates. The film is out of a short story of the same title by Ernest Hemingway, but the bloodline is a little thin. Joe Butler, the American boy in Hemingway's tale about...
...idle pleasures, including those lazy, sunny lunches on Skorpios. Said one of her chums: "How could he, for instance, accept eating under a parasol held for him by a servant dressed all in white?" Christina's whirl is now Manhattan, where she went discoing at Studio 54 last week with Nikos Boukis, a childhood friend whose family is also into ships...
...therapy. "It was obvious these kids hadn't had much exposure to anything," recalls Speech-Language Pathologist Alexa Romain, who was assigned to Gracie. "They wanted attention." The twins were soon attending severe language disorder classes at nearby Beale Elementary School and clinical therapy sessions three times a week. Psycholinguists Richard Meier and Elissa Newport were brought in from the nearby University of California campus, to study and decode the girls' hyperspeed chatter...