Word: businger
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DIED. J. ANTHONY LUKAS, 64, Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist whose scrupulously detailed books explored America's great divides; by his own hand; in New York City. The individual was the starting point for his work, as in Common Ground, an examination of three families linked and separated by Boston's busing...
"It was pretty drastic. They were cutting busing, cutting all extracurriculars, no field trips, no new textbooks," she says. "My sister, when she was a freshman in high school, learned about the Soviet Union, which was not then the Soviet Union. But that's what the book said."
With 34 Law School professors, President Bok sends a letter to Congress that calls. President Nixon's busing proposals "a failure in leadership" and warns that "the two bills, if enacted, would sacrifice the enforcement of constitutional rights, impair the functions of the judiciary under a rule of law, and...
McKinnis fears that busing will be the next target.
"We want to make busing students as competitive as non-busing, non-Boston public school kids," he says. "We also want to define the idea of merit and whether it should be based on standardized testing, and if so, which test ought to be used."