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Questions such as these have profoundly shaken the formerly strong national coalition of support for school integration. Besides, moral backing for busing long ago disappeared from the White House. Echoing his predecessor's doubts, President Ford recently observed: "I don't think that forced busing to achieve racial balance is the proper way to get quality education." Instead he called for "better school facilities, lower teacher-pupil ratios, the improvement of neighborhoods as such." Similarly, local politicians like Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane and Boston Mayor Kevin White have misgivings about busing. Says White: "To pursue blindly a means that...
Applicants for a personal loan from New York's First National City Bank have something of a shock in store: the new standard loan contract is written in language they can easily understand. The simple one-page document-one-third as long as its predecessor-spells out the bank's and borrower's obligations in relaxed you and I terms with nary a hereinafter to get in the way. And Citibank is not alone (see box). Anxious to stimulate business, banks and insurance companies alike are hastening to switch from the old long-winded fine print...
...uncontested ranking of toughest talking big-city cop in the U.S. Today's police chiefs generally take a less inflammatory public stand as they try to deal with intractable urban crime. Ed Davis' gunsmoke rhetoric revives memories of Birmingham's Bull Connor and his L.A. predecessor Bill Parker, who once said that as far as he was concerned any suspect picked up was guilty until proven innocent...
Relations between British Tory Leader Margaret Thatcher and her ousted predecessor, Ted Heath, are as frosty as ever, but the two Conservatives do have one thing in common. Both like to be photographed in yachting hats at the helm of a boat. Ocean-Racer Heath, however, need fear no competition from Thatcher, who last week on holiday was content to be aboard the twin-engine Melita on the placid canals of Brittany. "It really is so important to keep a boat tidy," counseled the Tories' First Lady. "Any housewife will tell you, the smaller the space, the more important...
...members of these unions are generally more highly paid than Gotbaum's municipal workers, they would be hurt the most by the arrangement. Their members are also the most restive; in fact, Maye, a boisterous former Golden Gloves boxer, was recently voted into office partly because his predecessor was not sufficiently militant. Said the Patrolmen's McFeeley: "The two decisions I had to choose from were 1) to sell out my membership and 2) to sell out my membership with my blessing." Neither he nor the other balking union leaders threatened a strike, though the devastation that could...