Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reason Hannon has resisted mandatory desegregation is his fear of white flight. Whites currently are less than half of Chicago's population, down from two-thirds in 1970. Maintains Hannon: "I would not like ever to recommend anything that would further reduce the middle-class tax base of this city...
...Chicago's Tribune and Sun-Times, as well as major Loop business leaders, have endorsed ATE. Not even the critics have urged a program of mandatory busing for the entire city. "That would be ridiculous," concedes Carey Preston, one of three blacks on Chicago's school board, all of whom voted against trying ATE. Local insiders are betting that the state board will take no action this month tougher than continuing Chicago's probationary status, while settling for Hannon's promise to expand ATE and its brand of voluntary integration...
There seems to be a consensus among Chicagoans that an expensive and bitterly resisted busing program, like the one imposed in Los Angeles this fall by a federal district judge, would not lead either to quality education or to integration. University of Chicago Sociologist James Coleman, whose antibusing views have stirred academic controversy, believes a voluntary plan is the only way lasting desegregation can be achieved in Chicago. Says he: "The apparent solution requires going back to the fundamental issue of equal education opportunity, regardless of race. Every child should have an opportunity to attend a school other than...
...some, lose some. A month ago, Chicago's Barren Foundation abruptly withdrew an award that was to have been presented to British Gynecologist Patrick Steptoe, who with Physiologist Robert Edwards was laboratory godfather of the world's first test-tube baby. The reason: the two had yet to provide adequate details of their achievement. Last week, however, the New York Fertility Research Foundation honored Steptoe for that very achievement. At a Manhattan press conference, Steptoe labeled the Barren Foundation's action "the most utterly disgraceful exhibition of bad manners I've ever come across...
...Washington, the collection drew 835,000 visitors, more than the entire population of the District of Columbia. It attracted an even bigger crowd in New Orleans (870,595), and was credited with bringing in $75 million in revenue. The record for the U.S. tour so far is held by Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History: 1,349,724 visitors. That figure could have been doubled if the museum had been able to handle the crowds. Seattle's Art Museum drew 1,293,203. When the show packed up, Seattle stores ran "Goodbye, Tut" sales...