Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before the five-year ban was up, two Special Branch detectives caught up with Luthuli in a shop near his farm and handed him a notice. It banished Luthuli for another five years, this time under even more rigid conditions; henceforth he may not even go into Stanger or attend services in the local Congregational Church for fear he would incite other blacks to riot...
Last week the state legislature at Darwin passed a law striking down all un equal prohibitions against the aborigines in the Northern Territory and requiring them to attend school in English, since they have no written language. Other states are following suit. Some Australians fear that the natives are not ready for such freedom and should remain wards of the government. Says Western Australia's Native Welfare Minister Edgar Lewis: "Some people think there will be orgies and riots, but I am sure it won't happen...
Prince Edward County also had some leeway. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the subject of tuition grants limited itself to pronouncing them illegal when part of a school-closedown program, county supervisors could presumably reopen the public schools for Negroes and any whites who wanted to attend -and then resume their old practice of providing funds to help the white-only foundation schools. To settle this issue will take another long battle through the state and federal courts...
...students attend classes in a former high school for 61 hours a day. They start out by shuffling packs of 2-in. by 2-in. cards with a one-syllable word printed on one side and a picture on the other; they then go on to cards that must be phonetically arranged (low, row, blow). Some students have covered six grades in two months...
Timmy wounds his mother by forgetting that waffles used to be his favorite breakfast dish and enrages his father by refusing to attend Mass. More threateningly, he has sensed some of the sources of his parents' snarlingly bad relationship and is eager to discover more. The revelations come steadily but not patly. The frustrations of wife and life have made John irascible, intolerant and bitter. Nettie is sad-eyed, stiff-bodied, and given to sulky silences. She has ruled the family by veto power; he, in turn, has mutilated his wife's heart with incessant drinking...