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People's Coalition for Peace & Justice, National Peace Action Coalition, Women Strike for Peace and other antiwar groups could put a damper on the celebration. Peace organizations in major cities have planned bus trips to the capital, where they hope to hold seminars and mount demonstrations against the war. Apart from the problems anti-Nixon demonstrators may bring, the Inauguration has already run into other minor flak. The President has been mildly criticized for selecting the Philadelphia Orchestra over the city's own National Symphony Orchestra, which has performed at past Inaugurations. Local radio and television stations have...
Other cities do not have to go to the extreme of gas rationing, but their own transportation plans will undoubtedly change old, freewheeling ways. In general, TIME found in roundup interviews last week, the cities count on three simultaneous measures. They will improve mass-transit systems (mainly bus) by buying new equipment and reserving highway lanes for express buses to the suburbs. They will require that old cars be "retrofitted" with devices to reduce exhaust emissions. Finally, they will encourage car pools by incentives such as free trips through toll gates...
...read the magazines, leafed through a photo history of the Clinic, "Monsey Medical Center was founded in...And here is our driver. He transports patients to and from LaGuardia Airport." The picture of the driver was missing. His bus was there, but he was gone. "Probably wrecked," thought he. There was a poster on the wall; it read, "Would you be more careful, if it happened to you?" It had a picture of a young man above the caption, his shirt stuffed with pillows. Thought he, "What can one expect from doctors who look between women's legs...
...submit plans to correct the imbalance, it responded with token programs. Today Boston has 65 imbalanced schools and half its 200-odd schools are either 90 per cent white or 90 per cent black. Out of frustration parents in the black community organized two voluntary small-scale programs to bus children to empty seats in nearby white schools...
...strongly influenced by the upcoming rulings of the Supreme Court. The Court is expected to rule soon on the Denver Case, in which the city was ordered to integrate the entire system. In addition, the Appeals Court in Detroit, Michigan recently upheld federal court Judge Roth's decision to bus children between Detroit and 53 suburban cities and town. The decision was in direct conflict with a ruling in another appeals court which reversed a city-suburb plan for Richmond, Va. The Supreme Court will take up the issue in the near future...