Word: bond
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what he was risking when he lent his name to the Citizens for Boston Schools. The Hicks juggernaut was proclaiming the current excellence of Boston schools. In his campaign speeches, Gartland pointed to the $29 million in building funds which has been available to the Committee since a 1963 bond issue; only $2.2 million of this has been allocated to date, although in some schools, more than 40 pupils are crowded into classrooms. Gartland also critized the obsolete vocational training program, the large number of temporary, unlicensed teachers now employed in Boston, and the old examination system of teacherhiring...
...arrested three days later. Last week in federal court Miller became the first American citizen arraigned under a law, signed last Aug. 30 by President Johnson, by which anyone who burns his draft card commits a federal offense. Miller pleaded innocent, was released on $500 bond until his trial on Nov. 22. (In the meantime, he started a 30-day sentence for intruding on private property during a civil rights demonstration in Syracuse in March.) As he walked out of the courthouse after his arraignment, he declared: "Destruction of a draft card poses no greater threat to national security than...
This is the first of the anti-Ian Fleming films, and if the others are as enjoyable, they may drive James Bond completely out of business. The Ipcress File does not try to outdo Goldfinger, just to undercut it, by slightly changing the rules of the game...
Every thriller must, to some extent, be unreal. The more unreal the film, the more it depends on extrinsic elements--an Aston-Martin, an industrial laser--for thrills. We know that James Bond will vanquish the villain and get the girl, but we want to see how he does it. The great thrillers, however, take believable, though not necessarily ordinary, men and women and put them in unusual situations. There should be room for dramatic subtlety and technical invention, as well as for excitement, as in a film like The Third...
...Hicks and Co. are now sitting on $29 million in construction funds, raised by a 1963 bond issue. They are ostensibly engaged in looking for a site for the new Boston English High School--while an ample, centrally-located, available site in Roxbury stares them in the face...