Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even in the somber setting of a courtroom, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison's spectacular investigation of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was barely distinguishable from a circus sideshow. In a hearing to determine whether retired Businessman Clay Shaw, 54, should be tried on charges of conspiring with Lee Harvey Oswald and others to murder the late President, "Big Jim" produced only two prosecution witnesses. One was a confessed heroin addict. The other was a young insurance salesman whose impeccable clothing concealed a mind in considerable disarray and whose memory had to be jogged by means...
...blueprint for the educational advancement of Boston's Negroes in the public schools. It is laudable that the School Committee is no longer refusing to count the number of Negroes in its schools and will begin to consider the effect of locating new schools and the redrawing of district lines on hastening the total integration of the city's educational system. More important, the settlement between the School Committee and the State Board should deprive Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, who fought the State Board every step of the way, of a dramatic issue to boost her own political ambitions...
...School Committee is more realistic in discussing the possible effects of its long-range program--to build new schools and to change the district lines to promote increased integration. In discussing each school in its report and projecting the number of students to be affected ultimately, it cautions that "rapidly changing neighborhood patterns may alter these projected figures; nevertheless we will draw...enough white children to open a racially balanced school...
administrative authority in a single Commissioner." The D.C. government does need to be rationalized. But the trouble with Johnson's plans is that the District administrators will have the same limitations as they did before. Any disgruntled agency--the Metropolitan Police, for example--can still run to Capitol Hill with its complaints. And the Metropolitan Washington Board of Trade will no doubt continue to be the city's unofficial government through its relationships, above and below board, with members of the House District Committee...
...date. It has not sought political organization among D.C. citizens. Those who speak for the home-rule movement, therefore, do not occupy a vantage point from which they could see the incongruity of a "step toward home rule" which continues and extends the preeminence of Federal politics in District government. The top city officials under the new plan, Presidentially appointed and Senate-confirmed, can scarcely form the basis of true local political maturity...