Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Australia's first census was as simple as counting sheep - black sheep, that...
...cast a cold eye on the use of lie detectors and mail interception. One of Gallagher's chief targets is the proposal for a consolidated data center, which would computerize all the known facts concerning every U.S. citizen drawn from so cial security files, military records, census responses, school records, credit agencies, court records, tax returns, insurance forms, etc., and present them to the inquiring bureaucrat at the touch of a button. Who should be allowed to push that button is what Gallagher is worrying about. Says he: "The answer may be more important to liberty than that other...
...team with teeth: every man was armed and trained to fight. But it was something else as well. "At first it had to be hamlet chief, schoolteacher and doctor," says a U.S. official, "a surrogate government in effect." A census of the villagers' grievances and needs was taken, and within weeks they were being met. Roads were repaired, loans granted to fishermen for larger boats, new motors, new nets. A school was set up, a health center built, fertilizer trucked in, a new sewing machine sent from Saigon after the women were organized into sewing groups...
...farmers, they started from the ground up-and slowly-to win the confidence of the villagers. First project: drawing a crude map of the village, its homes and road accesses. They ate in the local restaurants as a means of getting acquainted, took guard duty at night, began a census, used part of their first paychecks to buy cigarettes to give away. Working in three-man cells, they visited huts during the day, passing out sewing needles to the women, or went out to work beside the men cutting manioc root in the fields. The medical cadre, with white armbands...
School-Board Clash. Willis tried to deal with rising racial tensions by inaction and silence. When civil rights groups charged that neighborhood-school lines were drawn to crowd Negro kids into segregated schools while nearby white neighborhoods had schools with unused classrooms, Willis long refused to produce any racial census or classroom statistics. When he ordered mobile classrooms, which his critics dubbed "Willis wagons," into a Negro neighborhood, his school board overruled him, adopted a plan of more liberal student transfers instead. Willis refused to carry it out, suddenly turned in his resignation in October...