Word: brooklyns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brooklyn...
...Process. Most of the anger swirls about a demonstration district in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn. Set up last year to test the potential problems and benefits of decentralization, the project gave a community-controlled committee the right to evaluate teachers, supervise curriculum and spend funds allocated by the central school board. The hope was that community involvement would lead to closer rapport with teachers, more interested students, a better curriculum and, above all, a halt in the steady decline in student skills...
...Rookie. Brooklyn born, Murphy grew up in Nichols, Fla., starred in football, basketball and especially baseball at Mulberry High School. Several baseball scouts were hot on his trail, but they cooled off after he suffered a severe shoulder separation in a football game. "It nearly murdered me at the time," he says, "but it was the best thing that could have happened. After all, how many baseball players make $70,000 in their rookie season...
BRUCE KESLER Brooklyn...
...Cordice's chosen specialty was thoracic surgery. No U.S. school was willing to train him, and he had to go to Paris. That got him into Kings County (Brooklyn) Hospital for two years, and later he was named chief of both thoracic and vascular surgery at Harlem Hospital. So far, so good-or at least, not bad. But then Columbia's P. & S. took over Harlem, in a well-meant but abortive attempt by the city to raise ghetto-hospital standards. Columbia's white administrators did not bother to consult or even notify Dr. Cordice. They simply...