Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third straight week, New York City's big school system remained immobilized by a teachers' strike. Ironically, schools in the neighborhood-run Brooklyn district at the center of the controversy were fully open. While police patrolled the streets around Ocean Hill-Brownsville's eight schools, children inside the building benefited from one of the nation's youngest, best-educated and most enthusiastic teaching staffs...
...estimate. He also controls two rival Manhattan realty companies and personally shares in the ownership of dozens of profitable buildings, many of them operated by his own firms. Among his holdings: the Empire State Building, still the world's tallest, two high-rent Beverly Hills apartments, Brooklyn's industrial Bush Terminal and Manhattan's St. Moritz and Carlton House hotels...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...
...teachers were dismissed last spring by the local board of a predominantly Negro school district in Brooklyn which was set up to test decentralization of the school system. The local board accused the teachers of trying to sabotage the experiment. The city school board ordered their reinstatement--over local board protests--after the New York teachers union struck for three weeks to protest the dismissals...
...name of New York Mayor John Lindsay drifted into the conversation, and Deloros said, "If Lindsay can walk the streets of Harlem and Brooklyn, why can't our mayor come down here and talk to us? He's just a few blocks over there," she said with a gesture sweeping past a juke box toward the dustry rear of the rectangular room. "He really should come here and see the people," she said, "That's what keeps him in office--the people...