Word: businger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After eight years, busing has neither passed nor failed
With the last of legal maneuvers exhausted in a seven-year battle against court-ordered school busing, officials in Columbus last week set about transporting some 35,000 pupils newly reassigned to different schools. The whole community mobilized to make the operation a great success. On the first day of...
> Democratic Congressman Albert Gore Jr., the Harvard-educated son of Tennessee's former Senator, drove through towns with names like Pleasant Shade and Goose Horn, some of them consisting of only a few houses and stores surrounded by ripening tobacco and tassling cornfields. Goats climbed on rocky outcroppings, and...
Politics has turned out to be a particularly risky profession. Among the original 200, there were 65 elected officials. Only 38 still hold office; 18 were turned away at the polls; the rest chose not to run again for various reasons. In some cases, the losers' defeats said more...
Minority Rights. On the last day of the session, the court upheld massive school busing to desegregate schools in Columbus and Dayton, Ohio. The decisions, reached by 7-to-2 and 5-to-4 votes, reaffirmed a rule established by the court in 1973: if a plaintiff proves that a...