Word: closing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perhaps the easiest part of the bureau's work on the cover. Thieu's English is not perfect, but he is a pleasure for a reporter to work with, says Clark. "He is clear, direct, candid and alert." Other sources were not always so cooperative, or so close at hand...
...Roman Catholic school system in the U.S. is in serious, even desperate financial trouble. In Milwaukee this month, the Catholic office of education announced that 18 schools in the ten-county archdiocese will close this year for lack of funds. In Detroit, eight schools have already announced closing, and 42 others have been told that they must decide between consolidation and shutting down. In Philadelphia, the Catholic school system has mounted a mammoth fund-raising drive to head off a possible $10 million deficit next year. In at least half a dozen states, parochial-school lobbies are badgering their state...
...more in yearly tuition that a parochial school may cost. A Catholic-school official in New York estimated that transfers into public schools will add $30 million to the state's education bill this year, perhaps $50 million next year. If all nonpublic schools in Wisconsin were to close, the taxpayers' burden there would be increased by about $230 million a year...
...Shadow. Many of the gallerygoers who have seen the show in the past month, including many of the critics, feel as if they had never really seen a Frankenthaler before. In Manhattan's close and somewhat clubby artistic community, nearly everybody knows Helen Frankenthaler as a charmer, a hostess and a presence. Back in the early 1950s, she was the brash, aggressive young girl friend of Clement Greenberg, the eloquent critic and self-appointed evangelist who has done the most to recognize and extol the genius of Jackson Pollock. For the past eleven years, she has been the wife...
...this Mr. Nguyen dang Trung, who was president of the Saigon Student Union, was sentenced in absentia to ten years of hard labor because the Saigon Student Union had published a newspaper that favored peace and therefore "weakened the anticommunist spirit of the army and the people." Other sources close to Mr. Trung say that he may have been done away with. Tin Toung, a Buddhist magazine, in its September, 1968 issue reported that one of Mr. Trung's friends, Mr. Tran quoc Chuong, was tied up by three strangers and thrown down to his death from the third floor...