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...prohibits the use of public funds for private schools. Revision would open the way to publicly financed "tuition grants," which would foot the bills for parents to send children to segregated private schools anywhere in the state. Corollary legislation under the Gray plan would allow school boards to assign pupils to public schools at their own discretion-and discrimination...
...Obesity and overweight are too often confused: a man may be overweight with muscle without being obese, or may have flabby fat on a small frame without being overweight. Without condoning "gross obesity," Dr. Keys could assign it "no more than some aggravating or accelerating influence...
...sweeping move to preserve Alabama's segregated schools, the state senate approved a house bill to give local school boards "full and final authority" to assign individual pupils to whatever schools the members thought best...
...time the President moves, the Secret Service moves first. They examine his routes for likely vantage spots for gunmen, and assign local police to those spots. Hotel personnel, with emphasis on food handlers, are checked. Local police are asked for pictures of mental cases and other possible assassins, and the agents commit the photographed faces to memory. Some dangerous persons are held on vagrancy charges until the President leaves...
Tests & Truants. As the years passed, the city began to assign other teachers to help her. In 1940 it created its Division of Special Services and made her the first director. Soon, in addition to her visiting teachers, Director Janvier had departments of clinical reading, corrective speech and hearing, psychological testing, special education. The division started classes in hospitals, gave instruction to bed-ridden children at home, trained the stutterers and the retarded pupils, dealt with the truants and chronic delinquents. "Now," says Director Janvier, "I feel we have a division far ahead of any other down this...