Word: central
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central Casting. There is much that needs to be explained and understood. The Chicago riots were entirely different from uprisings in the ghettos. Those were spontaneous, disorganized, racial. Chicago, in fact, was a formal, prearranged confrontation between the Old and New Politics. Central Casting could have produced no better field marshal for the Old Politics army. Like some 18th century European general, Mayor Daley chose the place of battle, formed his battalions, set his lines of defense, and established his criteria for defeat or victory: there would be no disturbances in the streets of Chicago. The leftist youth leaders...
Freedom of the press was restored to Czechoslovakia in March, when the Communist Party's Central Committee stripped the country's euphemistically named Central Publication Authority of its censorship powers and fired its boss. The transformation was immediate and spectacular...
...main issue in the dispute was whether or not a community-run school committee in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn had the right to transfer teachers out of its district. In an unusual show of solidarity, the teachers' union, School Superintendent Bernard Donovan and the central board of education all insisted that it did not. Although not opposed in theory to community control of schools, the union insisted that teachers be protected from arbitrary dismissals. The conflict degenerated into an ugly battle that had racist overtones...
...city school system, McCoy has experimented with ungraded classes, team teaching, tutorials and other progressive techniques. He complains that an "elite society of professional educators is not truly interested in the education of children but just in security." He also argues that only parentally controlled schools, rather than a central board of education, can achieve progress...
Once again, the central bankers of Western nations rallied last week to support the pound sterling. They agreed to give Britain $2 billion of stand-by credit. This time, however, Britain's creditors insisted on tough new terms to correct the anomaly of a country that seeks to retain prestige as an international banker while remaining perennially broke. The outcome was a plan to reduce-and perhaps gradually end -the pound's function as one of the world's two reserve currencies...