Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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though the screams of orphaned children...
...only about the war and nothing but the war. But I dare them to tell a welfare mother in Roxbury, face to face, that "the worst of times" will be no worse under Nixon. I dare them to say it to Cesar Chavez. I dare them to tell black children in Mississippi that punishing Humphrey is worth the price of letting a Nixon-Agnew-Thurmond administration halt school desegregation. And if the New Politics dropouts can do all that with straight faces, then I can only marvel at their cynicism and callousness. Or perhaps simply their utter foolishness...
...children, all from the Houghton School, will attend classes in the "relocatable classrooms" for about 2 years, while their new school--The Martin Luther King Jr. School--is under construction. The Houghton School, located near Putnam Ave., will be demolished to make way for the King School on the same site...
Last spring, the City government was divided over whether to build the relocatable classrooms, or to adopt the supposedly less expensive course of scattering the Houghton children throughout other City schools for the next two years. Proponents of the relocatable classroom plan argued that it would keep the Houghton children together for the period, preserving the "unique spirit of the school...
About half of the children attending Houghton are white, and half are black. Children of Harvard faculty members attend the school, along with children from residents of the Riverside neighborhood...