Word: attends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...main point of the weekend was to pave the way for next week's hemisphere conference at the Uruguayan resort of Punta del Este, which Johnson plans to attend along with 20 Latin heads of state. At the top of the agenda are talks on joint inter-American programs for developing the basic economies of the nations south of the Rio Grande and on creation of a Latin American common market...
...years since the Supreme Court ordered "all deliberate speed" toward school desegregation, the Deep South has deliberately dallied. Even today in some states, fewer than 6% of Negro students attend classes with whites. Last week the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting in New Orleans, finally made clear that it will not tolerate flagrant evasion...
...Gaulle himself was too busy to attend the ceremony. He had journeyed to Cherbourg, where, with imperial pride, he launched France's first nuclear-powered submarine, the 5,200-ton Le Redoubtable. Built at a cost of $143 million, the submarine will eventually be fitted with French-built, Polaris-type missiles (range: 1,245 miles) to beef up De Gaulle's fledgling force de frappe; De Gaulle hopes to build three more by 1974. "I am very happy," said the General. "This is a capital day for our defense and for our independence." De Gaulle was saying...
Neurotic Reasons. Riesman and Jencks doubt that the majority of Negro colleges will ever achieve significant student integration. The only whites many can attract are those who attend them "for a mixture of idealistic, exploratory and neurotic reasons." At the same time, white colleges increasingly seek out the best Negro students, contributing further to the decline of the Negro schools. Yet these institutions will not die, say the authors, if only because they "give an otherwise unattainable sense of importance to their trustees, administrators, faculty and alumni...
...next fall and implies that punitive action will be taken against state and school board officials who seek to evade the ruling. It also tosses out as unconstitutional a state law under which tuition grants of $185 a year have been given to white students so that they could attend segregated private schools rather than public schools the courts have ordered to integrate...