Word: businger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Desegregation through busing, he said, evades the more basic problems of poor education, poor housing, and lack of jobs in the Boston area.
Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, a leading foe of forced busing who lost her school board seat in the last election, appeared to have regained her slot, piling up more than 50,000 votes.
His strong showing in Southie and Roxbury testifies to his careful handling of the delicate busing question--and perhaps paves the way for greater unity of a city split apart by race.
And there are important issues in the campaign. Violence in Boston has candidates worrying over racial imbalance in Cambridge schools. Twenty-five per cent of Cambridge high school students are minorities (40 per cent if you use federal, not state, guidelines). Incumbents nervously defend the committee's "Racial Balance Plan...
Boston voters will pick a mayor tomorrow and the names on the ballot will look very familiar. Incumbent Kevin H. White is seeking a fourth term and State Senator Joseph F. Timilty is trying for the third time to unseat him. Timilty nearly beat White in the 1975 election following...