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...According to a recently completed year-long study commissioned by the California state assembly, an average of 300,000 Californians are injured every year by stepping on broken glass, sharp-edged pull-tabs and other varieties of jettisoned junk. Medical treatment for the injuries costs about $3 million annually. The next step for the lawmakers is to act on a pending bill to clean up the state-and reduce the risks...
...Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life and is only about one-fourth as egregious as Anne Edwards' Judy Garland (Simon & Schuster; $9.95). Author Edwards, an English film scenarist, belongs to the Ptolemaic school of cinema biography. In this genre, all global events are subordinated to the subject: "Frances Ethel Gumm, the future Judy Garland...
HARVARD'S AND Radcliffe's move to so-called equal access admissions next year will only make a gradual progress toward equalizing the number of men and women in college. For all the fanfare by a year-long study of the issue by a blue ribbon committee, some serious questions still must be answered about Harvard and Radcliffe's version of equal access...
...pragmatic change in the attitudes of all constituencies that has come about during the year-long deliberations of the Strauch Committee has surely buoyed the hopes of administrators wondering about the upcoming review of undergraduate education by a similar committee...
...certainly not alone in its woes with the spreading scourge of kickbacks. After a year-long federal grand jury investigation, 19 U.S. and foreign airlines (including Pan Am) last week offered to plead no contest to charges that they had given illegal kickbacks to travel agents. Last week as well, financially straitened W.T. Grant Co. filed civil fraud charges in New York federal court against three of its executives -including John A. Christensen, a $72,000-a-year vice president-alleging that they had accepted bribes from an Atlanta-based real estate developer to lease inferior sites for shopping centers...