Word: businger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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LESS CROWDED AIRPORTS. The Civil Aeronautics Board is trying to persuade the airlines to route more flights through smaller, "satellite" fields that are at present underused. Greater use is already being made of Oakland airport outside San Francisco and Hollywood-Burbank in Los Angeles. At the main airports, lines increasingly...
Nonetheless, there is now considerable academic consensus that in large cities a significant linkage exists between white flight and forced busing. The fact that sociologists show signs of catching up with everybody else's common-sense observation should be reassuring. But in the spectrum of hope for improving the...
The first is the "metropolitan plan," which tries to block white flight by incorporating suburbs under city control, then busing whites back into town to achieve balance. The courts have struck down such plans in Detroit and Richmond. Armor adds another glum note. After studying inconclusive results of the one...
Armor has often testified in court hearings about mandatory busing plans. His personal hope for further progress boils down to a mixture of mandated school improvements-for instance, a court-ordered increase in the number of "magnet" schools to draw qualified whites and blacks from all corners of a city...
Perhaps significantly, Armor does not confront a fact that most parents, blacks especially, need no sociologist to remind them of. Without the constant threat of busing and the steady prodding of the courts, the amount of "voluntary" school integration in San Diego and elsewhere would probably have never occurred. ∎