Word: attendants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...zoning" and other measures, New York has since bussed or shifted thousands of Negro children to mostly white schools. The new plan aims to pair about one-fifth of the city's mostly Negro schools with nearby mostly white schools, so that all children of some elementary grades attend one school and all children of other elementary grades attend another. Moreover, it envisions smaller classes, more Negro teachers, more pre-school instruction to give Negro children a better start, and an end to culture-biased IQ tests and to the short class days caused by multiple sessions. In short...
Jubilee couples can attend one of several freshman athletic events scheduled for Saturday afternoon. That evening the Freshman Octet will sing at a banquet in the Union. Following the banquet will be a formal dance with Harry Marshard's band. Rock 'n' roll singer Del Shannon will also appear at the dance...
...measure of white reaction was a furious hassle over the proposed pairing of two Queens grade schools, one 87% white, the other 97% Negro. The schools are only six blocks apart; all first-and second-graders would attend one school, all third-to sixth-graders the other. One Jewish mother's reaction: "If the Negroes want to get ahead, why don't they do what we Jews did?" Said disheartened Rabbi Myron Fenster: "What the whites are saying is: 'If the whole society is rotten, why start with me? I don't want to take...
...Briggs, for East House at 7 p.m. in Cabot, and for North House at 8 p.m. in Comstock and another at 10 p.m. in Holmes, will be discussions led by RGA representatives, dormitory officers, or House Committee members. Some deans and House Masters are planning to attend...
Working seven days a week, including Christmas, Forrestal had little social life. He prided himself on being able to attend a cocktail party, greet the hostess, down a martini, exchange a few pleasantries and take his leave-all in eight minutes. At 34, Forrestal married a New York socialite and Vogue editor, Josephine Ogden, whose friends were all café society. They had two sons, but before long the couple were leading separate lives. Forrestal, who avoided emotional attachments all his life, hardly even spoke to his boys until they were ready to enter college...