Word: boarding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...following are excerpts from President Pusey's annual report to members of the Board of Overseers. Space does not permit us to include the entire 52-page report...
...ills-demanded such reforms recently and got them, as the New York Times reported last week. In fact, Dr. Leonard Gelber, the principal, credits much of the present calm at Bushwick to a "human relations" committee of students, teachers and administrators that he established last spring as a sounding board for student demands. The very fact that those demands were given serious consideration, let alone granted, seems to have kept Bushwick cool. For the present, at least, it has escaped the angry confrontation for confrontation's sake that has become familiar across the country...
...rather unusual for a company to declare a $55-per-share dividend. When the payout is voted by a board filled with newcomers from another company that has just acquired control, eyebrows go up all around. Last week they were raised when Manhattan-based Great American Insurance Co. decided to dip into its $300 million surplus to distribute a total of about $171 million in securities. Reason: National General Corp., a Los Angeles-based moviemaker and would-be conglomerate, recently picked up 75% control of Great American Holding Corp., the fire and casualty insurance firm's parent holding company...
Thurmond's satisfaction with the plan only intensified the dismay of civil rights forces. The liberal Atlanta Journal called the move "a costly Nixon retreat" that "slaps the face of every Southern school board . . . that has moved with great difficulty to obey the law." Six liberal Republicans in the Senate said that they hoped the decision didn't mean that Finch would flag on enforcement, and Senate Democrats threatened committee action if desegregation plans were left...
Some callers, a secretary in the ROTC office said, suggested ROTC call "certain individuals" on the Board of Overseers...