Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday's meeting, the coaches decided to convene each year in March, at the NCAA District Playoffs later in the spring, and at the NCAA Coaches Convention in January...
This urban segregation might not be as overt as the old Jim Crow system, Clark said, "but as long as the segregated education is unequal, can it make any difference what caused it? Musn't the law be that every school district in the U.S. has an obligation to end segregation--no matter what its cause...
...critics of the Warren Commission's finding that Lee Harvey Oswald was solely responsible for Kennedy's death, District Attorney Jim Garrison's performance was a crashing letdown. The state produced no evidence whatever, as Big Jim had said it would, linking Shaw with Oswald's murderer, Jack Ruby. Though it found eyewitnesses who claimed that the fatal gunfire came from directions other than the Texas School Book Depository, where Oswald was stationed, no witness purported to have heard shots from more than one location -another Garrison assertion. One eyewitness to the Shaw "plot," New York...
Luring new industry is a problem that confronts old towns as well as new ones-particularly when ghetto areas are involved. In Los Angeles' Watts district, there has been no new industrial construction for 35 years-not even to replace facilities destroyed in the riots of 3½ years ago. Last week the Commerce Department announced a $3.8 million loan for development of a 45-acre industrial park in the overwhelmingly black area, where unemployment is running up to 20% (v. 3.3% for the nation as a whole). On a scarred parcel of land now occupied by a railroad...
...companies provided more sustained opposition, however. Transcontinental Bus Systems, in fact, took the question of the fares' legality to court in a suit against the CAB. In 1967, the Fifth U.S. District Court of Appeals ruled that the CAB had abused its discretion in its hasty approval of Youth Fare. The CAB was ordered by the court to re-examine the controversy and to come up with findings "not inconsistent with this decision...