Word: district
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Baird was arrested before a crowd of 2500 people in Hayden Hall at B.U., after repeatedly challenging policemen. The Roxbury District Court declined jurisdiction over the case and passed it on to the superior court...
...terms of settlement named a state-appointed trustee, Associate Education Commissioner Herbert F. Johnson, for the experimental Ocean Hill-Brownsville decentralized district, which was the focus of the dispute; he will remain in charge of the area's eight schools until tensions have relaxed. Three principals named by the Ocean Hill-Brownsville local board were suspended from their jobs pending a court decision on the legality of their appointments. A three-man committee was designated to hear teachers' complaints. U.F.T. Leader Albert Shanker won reinstatement for 79 of his teachers who had been transferred out of the district...
...Railroads last January, it opened a new right of way for railroad mergers on a grand scale. National policy, the court noted, requires that railroads be allowed to unite into a "limited number of systems." In accord with the Supreme Court's doctrine, a special three-judge Federal District Court in Washington last week flashed a long-awaited green light for a merger that would create the nation's longest railroad...
...secret transatlantic negotiations with the "Lions" and "Tigers"-code names for Atlantic Richfield and Sinclair. If everything works out, British Petroleum will buy an Atlantic Richfield refinery in Texas, a Sinclair refinery in Pennsylvania, and a string of 5,600 Sinclair gas stations in eleven Eastern states and the District of Columbia. The deal hangs on Justice Department approval of a pending merger of Sinclair and Atlantic Richfield, which now may well pick up speed. One Justice hang-up has been that the merger would lessen competition in the East, where both companies have gas-station chains...
...Federal government, which is now setting up air control agencies for specific districts, must have a way of determining where the boundaries of each district should fall. For example, Goodrich added, Providence, R.I. might be within the Boston pollution sphere...