Word: armors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guards doesn't seem to bother Ted and Katie Bench-or even Grandma Pearl. Nearly every day the Cincinnati Reds are in town, at least one of the three treks out to Riverfront Stadium and cheers lustily as the pride of the family, Johnny Lee Bench, dons his armor and trots onto the field to command the game...
...complex world of the catcher, and it never has been. Pitching may well be 75% of baseball but a savvy signal caller behind the plate can be 50% of pitching. And unlike the pitcher, he is expected to come out of his leg-numbing squat, unbuckle his armor and pull his weight in the batter...
...fifth premise, however, Armor found "strong evidence that middle-class suburban prep schools have an important 'channeling' effect not found in black schools . . . that black students attending such schools may have doors opened for them that are closed to students attending predominantly black schools...
...Armor was quick to acknowledge the limitations of his work. "It is difficult," he wrote, "to make comparisons and generalizations when data are derived from different studies." Armor drew on his own study of Metco, a voluntary busing program involving Boston and 28 suburbs, plus independent reports over varying time spans on integration programs in Ann Arbor, Riverside, Hartford, New Haven, and White Plains, N.Y. Armor conceded that his own Metco study might have been based on groups of students who "are not truly representative of the full population of bused students and their matched siblings." Metco Chief Robert Hayden...
Senate finally pass the $18.5 billion higher-education bill-including an amendment to postpone any court-ordered busing for racial "balance" until Jan. 1, 1974, or until appeals have been exhausted-the Armor report was bound to stir controversy. At the very least, it strengthened antibusing forces in the House, where prospects for the bill are cloudy. It was Armor himself, however, who pointed out that "just because the current policy model is inaccurate, this does not mean that there are no other justifications for integration . . . If blacks and whites are ever to live in an integrated culture, they must...