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...Gainesville High School, a girls' physical education class is predominantly black: the instructor explains that white girls are taking the required one year of physical education and no more. In the cafeteria, students save seats at their tables for friends; the blacks eat on one side, the whites on the other. A transfer of teachers to balance racially the faculties of the Atlanta public schools turned out defiant crowds of students and parents, and brought threats of mass teacher resignations. Black students were resentful when their schools were arbitrarily closed to keep the identity of white schools alive; they mounted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: New Day A'Coming in the South | 5/31/1971 | See Source »

...least four committees, leaving little time to become familiar with that many specialties. The only staff help the legislature gets is from four elderly women who run a legislative reference service. No legislator has an office; much of the business is transacted in the corridors or the cafeteria. Other states that provide no office space: Iowa, Ohio, Utah and Indiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE STATES: Appraising the Legislatures | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

Sympathetic to student demands for pass/fail grading, Bok persuaded hostile faculty members to accept a compromise making the new system optional in the first year. He helped the manager of the law-school cafeteria figure out economical ways to make hamburgers taste better, suggested bright colors and contemporary art to redecorate dingy dorms and offices. A registered Democrat, he mobilized law-school alumni to write letters to Senators opposing the Supreme Court nomination of G. Harrold Carswell. Last spring he went to Washington to protest the U.S. move into Cambodia. As Harvard's president, he intends to keep speaking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Harvard's Quiet Man | 1/25/1971 | See Source »

...extended attempt at oral stimulation fail to get him going, she tries talking about politics to excite him. There is a rich girl tripped out on acid. And a married girl from Grosse Pointe who was "thrown out of high school for giving blow jobs in the cafeteria" and now wouldn't mind being raped, with her husband for an audience...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: Fairy Tales Death Rattles | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...restaurant will open today on the site of the old Hayes-Bickford Cafeteria, which prospered in the Square for 30 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Restaurant Open On Former Bick Site | 11/20/1970 | See Source »

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