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...past decade, as the Justices of the Supreme Court have wrestled with the vexing dilemmas of affirmative action, they have produced a string of splintered and often confusing rulings. At first glance, the affirmativeaction decisions handed down last week by the high court seemed only to add to the muddle. The cases, one involving Cleveland fire fighters and the other a New York sheet-metal-workers union, were quite different, and the court's rulings were reached by narrow and shifting majorities, as some Justices agreed with parts of one opinion but not others. However, the twin decisions were resoundingly...
...restoring its original 1880s decor, including 20-ft. ceilings, swinging doors and frosted- glass windows. Now Clayton and Love's widow are ready to retire, but they say that the Crystal Palace is profitable. Local ranchers and tourists enjoy being served by bartenders who wear stiff cotton shirts, string ties and black pants, just like in the days when Wyatt Earp dealt a mean game of faro...
Early on, the audience has no problem pegging the players, as if they have come from an ex-jock's "as told to" book. The second-string catcher, named Boomer, is divorced by his wife during the game over the bullpen phone. He, by the way, is played by Peter Fox '72, an alumnus of the Hasty Pudding Theatrical Society. The pitching corps consists of Frito (Bobby DiCicco), a Bruce Springsteen-loving Hispanic; Duke (Wesley Thompson), a self-proclaimed persecuted Black; Moose (Vince Lucchesi), an over-the-hill knuckler; Ripper (Artie Gerunda), a Harvard educated alcoholic; and Tank (Eddie Frierson...
Wolper's Stage 2 pains result largely from the crises that inevitably arise in coordinating a string of events at half a dozen sites involving upwards of 20,000 people, including the Presidents of France and the United States. One day last week he was found fretting with Nancy Reagan's advance team over details of a speech and nursing a severe sting administered by Federal Judge Gerhard A. Gesell, who canceled the naturalization ceremony that was to be held at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington and televised nationally. Gesell said the planners were turning the "usual dignified naturalization court...
While telecommunications experts were shocked by the magnitude of the proposal, it would merely be the latest in a string of major divestitures by ITT. Since he took charge of the company in 1979, Chairman Rand Araskog has spun off some 95 businesses worth about $4 billion. Meanwhile, he has channeled resources into such prized divisions as the Hartford insurance company and the Sheraton chain of 488 hotels and resorts. Says Herbert Goodfriend, a telecommunications analyst at Prudential-Bache: "Araskog is dismantling Harold Geneen's empire...