Word: boards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than his Senator father, won the G.O.P. primary for a vacant Los Angeles seat in Congress. Edmund G. Brown Jr., 31, son of the former Governor, made good in his first race too, leading the primary field for a place on the city's newly created junior colleges board. Both are heavy favorites in their runoffs...
...working model: the Rough Rock Demonstration School, an elementary school that was started in 1966 with support from the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Economic Opportunity, but has an all-Navaho school board with total administrative authority. At Rough Rock, students learn Navaho language and history, along with such standard subjects as English, math and science. Medicine men come to the dormitories in the evening to tell tribal folk tales and legends. The Navaho's focus on family ties is never forgotten, and children are allowed to go home whenever their parents wish...
...Toucan Captain Len Smith, 50, winner of nine world championships, explained that only porcelain gives the "tolley" (shooter) the proper heft and feel. Every Toucan tolley is custom carved to fit the knuckle, but none has a diameter greater than .75 in.-the dimension prescribed by the British Marbles Board of Control...
Negotiations are deadlocked at six of the nation's nine major airlines. Eastern and four other companies have asked the National Mediation Board to move in, but so far it has agreed to do so only at National Airlines, where I.A.M. members have called a wildcat strike. The mechanics gained some attention for their dispute last week by disrupting the National-sponsored invitational golf tournament in Miami. A union-hired plane trailing a banner that proclaimed "Don't Fly N.A.L." circled the course. Several strikers invaded the 17th green, traded blows with police and had to be bodily...
Wrangling with Bankers. Confusion has arisen despite-and partly because of-a seven-year effort by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants to standardize corporate reporting. The institute prescribes rules through its 18-man Accounting Principles Board, and firms of accountants must follow them or risk being charged with unethical conduct. The SEC, which polices accounting by publicly owned companies, goes along with the board's formal "opinions...