Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With due ceremony, the Denison, Texas, school board decided to rename the local high school in honor of Dwight David Eisenhower, 74, who was born in that little two-story frame house near the tracks. Would Ike attend? He'd be delighted. So everything was arranged, until some townspeople started to grumble. Why, they sniffed, that Eisenhower boy lived here only three months before the family moved up to Abilene. And hadn't one of the papers said he was "born in Denison by accident"? The school board backed off, sheepishly offered to name, well, the school auditorium...
...region's 1,950 districts submitted integration plans that were acceptable to U.S. Commissioner of Education Francis Keppel. Roughly half of these districts took the easy way by adopting "freedom of choice" plans, under which Negroes are to designate the school they wish to attend. These plans have been attacked by civil rights groups because "freedom of choice" places the burden of initiative upon local Negroes-who have to buck intense white pressure-rather than putting the responsibility on school officials...
...Supreme Court, attacking the Connecticut law against birth control that so long offended Protestants. The National Council of Churches, traditionally opposed to direct federal aid for parochial schools, accepted with only minor qualms this year's education act that provides for certain assistance to children who attend such schools. The breakdown of hostility has taken place on both sides of the fence: even those who oppose direct aid to church-related schools and colleges recognize the vital educational role they play; schools once fearful that federal aid meant federal control now realize that they cannot survive economically without some...
...Cambridge to finish the school year, then returned to spend the summer working with the Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity in Selma. His companion was Father Richard F. Morrisroe, assistant pastor of Chicago's Saint Columbanus Church, who had gone earlier this month to Birmingham to attend the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convention...
...Bella. But shortly after the new date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many leaders might not be able to attend both. With a vast sum invested in an enormous modern conference hall and 65 presidential villas, Bouteflika had come to Accra to talk Nkrumah into setting a less conflicting date...