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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board charged Patterson, 47 and black, with "short changing" the city's schools (74% black) by lowering academic standards and failing to end school violence. In Chicago, Superintendent James F. Redmond announced that he would not accept reappointment to his $56,000-a-year job when his contract expires next month, citing "constant bickering" among the city's twelve board members and criticism of the low scores of Chicago pupils. Boston's school committee eased out William Leary as its $47,500-a-year superintendent in April amid allegations that he went along too easily with court...
When tough-talking Barbara Sizemore agreed to become the new superintendent of schools in Washington, D.C., in 1973, she made sure that her contract provided for a public hearing before she could be dismissed. She was remarkably foresighted. Two years ago, school board members praised the District's first black woman superintendent as "brilliant," "creative" and "charismatic." Now the board says she is "combative," "volatile" and "hostile," and has voted to fire her. Sizemore's hearing is scheduled to start next week, and it promises to be as tense and noisy as any debate in the capital since...
...city and Local 195 of the Public Works Union agreed last Tuesday to accept Robert L. Stutz as arbitor in the contract dispute that caused a one-day sanitation employees strike last week...
...gazelle, and modest Joe Rudi is known as the best leftfielder in baseball. Most teen-age players would cast a glance at that outfield and sign up with another club or resign themselves to ten years in the minors. Not Claudell Washington. He had an A's contract at age 17, starred in the World Series last year at 20, and this season has taken over leftfield and was chosen to be a member of the American League squad in this week's All-Star game in Milwaukee...
...assorted beefcakes to become the highest-paid athletic performer of all time. He received $2 million for his light workout with Joe Bugner and has been promised twice as much for his September bout with Joe Frazier. Heavyweight Norman Mailer's last big deal was a $1 million contract to produce 500,000 to 800,000 words, or roughly five books. After taxes and expenses, he notes, that is not much money for a man who bears the costs of five marriages and seven children...