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...treating them are scarce. Thomas, a counselor to ex- offenders in Oakland for eleven years, had no model when she began her program in December 1987. But with the dramatic increase of crack-contaminated infants, she did not wait for someone else to show the way. "There was a void in the system," she explains. "People who needed help the most were being ignored." Thomas received her inspiration from the ex-offender mothers she had worked with, who fought to turn their lives around. Her plans received support from officials who knew and respected her work. She named her program...
...have been created to fill a void between football and baseball season, but today, baseball substitutes for no sport. It may even be unparalled in offering some the best upsets in sports--particularly college--history...
...departure of Graham, the council's only Black member, leaves a different kind of void on the council. Several Black candidates are considering running, including Graham's former campaign treasurer, Renae Scott and attorney Kenneth E. Reeves. School Committee member Frances H. Cooper says she may also...
...accomplished ten revolutions around the moon, and ended with an uneventful splashdown in the Pacific. It was a marvelous Christmas gift to the human race -- and especially to the U.S., battered by war, assassination and domestic strife. For the first time, men saw the entire globe floating in the void. It was the centerpiece of a new era, a new consciousness: the Space Age. In the cramped confines of an 11-ft.-long module, blasted aloft by a 363-ft. Saturn 5 rocket, the three astronauts embodied an American urge for restless exploration, wedded to an unheard-of degree...
...resigned as vice president of the organization in charge of Parisian opera. Zubin Mehta of the New York Philharmonic said, "I will not go there under these circumstances." Herbert von Karajan, the grand old czar of the conducting world, declared that his plans for the Bastille were "null and void." Also lining up behind Barenboim: Sir Georg Solti of the Chicago Symphony and Carlo Maria Giulini, formerly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic...