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Charlotte seemed an appropriate spot for the Northerners to visit. It became a landmark in school desegregation in 1970, when a federal judge ordered crosstown busing, which originally affected about one-fourth of the district's 75,000 pupils (some 46,000 out of 77,300 students now take a bus to school, half of them bused for desegregation). But busing was no more popular in Charlotte than it is in Boston. In fact, only four days before the Boston contingent arrived, racial fighting forced the closing of one of the district schools, Olympic High. Seven students were arrested...
Perhaps no sport enjoys the popularity bannister-sliding does at this time in this country. More and more crosstown rivals in more and more small towns are leaving the gridiron as the arena for the annual conflict--and taking to the bannisters of the vicinity. In small parishes on the Mississippi and in teeming boroughs on the East cost, patriotic youths have erected grand and alabaster bannisters in tribute to the state. And in upstate New York, I am told, they are razing America's traditional sports temple to make way for a Hall of Fame for the great splinter...
...varsity stickmen ended a lacrosse win drought yesterday on home turf with a deluge of points rained on hapless crosstown rival MIT, while the freshman edition also put in its oar, with a come-from-behind triumph over visiting Andover...
Walk east crosstown. Wind biting and raising whorls of grit and paper scraps. See the sky blown blue somewhere far out over Flushing. As a little boy I thought it was some strange big toilet bowl, Where giants took their craps...
...fitting tribute to Coach John Wooden and his undefeated U.C.L.A. Bruins. Heavily favored to win their ninth national championship in ten years, U.C.L.A. seemed more invincible than ever last week as it went for its 62nd consecutive victory against its formidable crosstown rival U.S.C. In fact, the top-ranked Bruins are so steeped in talent that their bench warmers may well be the No. 2 team in the nation. Asked if there is any way to stop Wooden, Oklahoma City Coach Abe Lemons said: "Wait, and some night when the moon is full and the clock strikes midnight, drive...