Word: wilson
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College students and young professionals, particularly Blacks and Hispanics, should help educate Boston's large population of illiterate and unskilled youth, Laval Wilson, superintendent of Boston Public Schools, told a group of 35 students at the Currier Fishbowl last night...
...support the PLO? The question really is: Do you support the constitutional right of all Americans to express their opinions through political organizations? We urge the press and citizens of the United States of America to join us in resisting this travesty of American principles. Dina Abu-Ghaida '91 Wilson B. Bisbai Sammy Hassan '88 Mona Khalil '88 Martha McElroy '88 Fouad S. Onbargi Joshua Peterson '91 Adam Sabra '90 Ameneh Ziai...
...cavalry brats, the years between the wars are seen through a golden haze. Jane Wilson Cooper, daughter of the late Colonel Garnet ("Bill") Wilson, a 40-year cavalryman, recalls a "marvelous sense of security when you heard the bugle call tattoo or the gun was fired for retreat. It was the Depression, but we were never aware of not having money. What I remember is fox hunting at Fort Oglethorpe, not being broke." Her voice, these years later, carries enormous pride at being family to an elite corps of warriors...
After Philadelphia's former law-and-order Mayor Frank Rizzo was beaten in a 1983 Democratic primary by black City Managing Director Wilson Goode, he refused to stay quietly in retirement. This year Rizzo bolted to the Republican Party and ran for his old job, blasting Goode for the inept fire bombing of a house of black radicals that killed eleven people and destroyed 61 homes. His appeal to his core constituency of white ethnic voters almost worked. Rizzo last week carried the party's heavily Democratic ethnic wards, but some 98% of blacks stuck with Goode, despite his record...
...high-profile, easily promotable episodes that can draw attention to a series. ("Next week on I Love Valerie: a crack dealer moves into the neighborhood.") Equally important, many writers and producers, tired of feeding the sitcom gag machine, are looking for ways to stretch the old formulas. Says Hugh Wilson, creator of Frank's Place: "If you play Big Band all the time, every so often you want to improvise...