Word: councilmanic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this would require 5,000 extra buses to transport 250,000 children daily. Gitelson scoffs at all such huge estimates as "merely an exercise in mathematics." Yet the plan does seem impractical, and City Councilman Marvin Braude just could be right when he calls it "a disaster for our community." In a typical if oversimplified anti-integration complaint, he argues that "you just can't solve all the inequities in our society by putting the burden on small schoolchildren." Given the Administration's current stance, Los Angeles too hopes to be rescued by the President if higher courts...
Because of the multitude of problems and aspects that can be classifield under "urban affairs," any attempt to be comprehensive would inevitably fall short. In Banfield's own course a number of experts on different urban problems-including Boston City Councilman Thomas Atkins and Dr. Robert Coles, the expert on the effects of poverty on children-have agreed to lecture...
Amid the public indignation that followed disruptions at Columbia, Cornell and other New York campuses last year, the state legislature set up a Temporary Commission to Study the Causes of Campus Unrest. Many expected the commission-six legislators, a banker, an educator and a former city councilman-to recommend tough laws against student revolts. But last week the commission reported that serious trouble occurred at only eleven of New York's 212 colleges-and it praised the students' "sincerity and honesty...