Word: buffalo
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Government subsidies to parochial schools are unconstitutional because of the First Amendment ban on any law "respecting an establishment of religion." Yet the U.S. parochial schools educate some 4.3 million children, as much as 33% of the total in cities like Philadelphia and Buffalo. This is a burden the public schools could not easily handle. President Nixon therefore publicly promised last year to find some constitutionally acceptable means of providing parochial-school aid (a promise yet to be fulfilled), and sixteen different states have devised their own systems for circumventing...
...fault) a new dog. The copping out is a little harder to understand, because what Hills did, as far as the reader can figure it out, was to become a full-time freelance writer. This, in an era of declining markets, is very similar to becoming a professional buffalo hunter, and it is definitely not the road to mental health...
...Appeals ruled 6-3 that city-suburban busing could indeed be ordered by the state legislature or, if the legislature did nothing, by the courts. The problem, therefore, appears headed once again for the Supreme Court, whose ruling could decisively affect similar suits pending in Boston, Hartford, Indianapolis, Buffalo, Wilmington and a number of other cities. In the meantime, though, the Sixth Circuit Court stayed any actual execution of Judge Roth's integration orders until the Detroit suburbs have a chance to state their objections in court-and those objections will be long and loud...
...elected are: Philip N. Alexander of Dunster House and Kingston, Jamaica; John Arao of Leverett House and Evanston, III.; Jeffrey D. Bernhard of Quincy House and Buffalo, N.Y.; Michael M. Biehl of Adams House and Elm Grove, Wis.; John P. Boyd of Lowell House and Stoneham; Steven C. Bunnell of Kirkland House and Rumson, N.J.; Ira A. Burnim of North House and Melrose; and, Jack F. Conn of South House and CreveCoeur...
Secretariat-the name has a kind of bureaucratic resonance. But no label could be more deceptive. The regal thoroughbred that carries it is not the tallest horse that ever lived, but he is enormous by any other measure of size or performance. He has a neck like a buffalo, a back as broad as a sofa. His chest is so deep and wide that it takes a custom-made girth to encircle its 75% in. and hold the saddle. And he is still growing...