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...major poet recently turned his hand to this subject. Robert Penn Warren's New Dawn chronicles the Enola Gay's mission from the takeoff on Tinian, to the flight over the Aioi Bridge--"Color/ Of the world changes. It/ Changes like a dream." The poem ends with an account of the flyers' celebrations, and then after...
...Museum. "He had been in the city during the bombing," says Rosenblatt. "He had a deep sense of the experience and could express it in poetic language. For the next five days, I stayed with him as he revisited all the sites of his early life and provided his account of the bombing...
...that player salaries are pushing the sport to the brink of financial ruin. By their tabulation, the 26 major-league teams lost $43 million in 1984 and could have a deficit of about $100 million in 1988. Nonsense, say the players, who accuse owners of using legal but oddball accounting methods to create paper losses. New owners, in particular, mark down profits for tax purposes by taking depreciation allowances that are supposed to account for the declining value of their players. In addition, the clubs often count long-term deferred compensation to players as a current expense. George Steinbrenner, owner...
Still, the schools remained in trouble. Last year Boston's enrollment had plummeted to 56,000, from 93,000 in 1973. Whites account for just 27% of the remaining students. Illiteracy in high schools stands at 20%, the dropout rate at about 48%. But Garrity, displaying an odd mixture of public belligerence and personal shyness, refused invitations from Superintendent Spillane to visit the schools. "The pathetic part," says Spillane, "is that it seems that he's almost in fear of discovering what is really going...
...that he examined twelve departments last March and discovered that $2.45 million worth of supplies had been received aboard the ship but had not been charged to the departments. After turning his records over to Navy investigators, Jackson said that the supply system contained "no checks or balances, no accountability. It's a breeding ground for crooks." (Late last week the Navy found that it could not account for some $14 million worth of Kitty Hawk supplies...