Word: blockful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...previous night. "We won't use hashed-over news," Benti insists. "It is either new, or our way of approaching it is new." One of the new approaches is a continuing series on life in the ghetto, interpreted by Correspondent John Hart. By zeroing in on a two-block area along Washington's Columbia Road, the Bend team hopes to involve its audience in the problems and progress-or retrogression-of a small group of ghetto people...
...Coast's answer to Art Buchwald. One of the paper's series, probing the police department, went so far as to lead with the old saw about the dumb cop who found a dead horse on the corner of Guerrero Street and dutifully dragged it a whole block to Valencia Street because he couldn't spell Guerrero. "We got a new chief out of that series," says Newhall...
...some reason, these older members of the business community were accorded full voting status with the students and the Faculty of the Business School. And they voted, as might be suspected, in a conservative block which totally distorts the true feeling of those who voted in that assembly...
...held by the agency's executives and its retirement fund. The sale will begin about June, at a price still to be determined. Of these shares, 350,000 will come from the company it self, and 109,709 from the retirement fund, which will still retain the largest block of stock. The rest will come from the firm's officers, who are being asked to sell up to 20% of their holdings for the issue...
Parent boards have amazed professional with the speed with which they learn the skills of managing schools and raising funds. "They stop things," says Tony Ward, the articulate, mustachioed director of the East Harlem Block Schools, "for reasons that make sense." Parents, for their part, have learned a healthy cynicism about the advice of professionals and a confidence in their own judgement. Most community groups had the help of professional educators in starting their schools, but learned to guard their own authority. "Professionals sat down in our living room and we insisted on retaining control," says Ellen Fields...