Word: district
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...board denied any wrongdoing. It insisted that a steady effort had been made since 1954 to change the school-district boundaries and close rundown, largely black schools. Moreover, the board maintained, Johnson was receiving a quality education. But after years of wrangling, the board's guarantors, Insurance Co. of North America, last December offered a settlement to Johnson. Explains I.N.A. Attorney Eugene Ralston: "The basic reason for settling was the enormous expense involved in the litigation. An in ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid...
...India and invited him to Switzerland. Her generosity helped launch the Divine Light Center in a cluster of 15 houses, which the swami painted an offensive bright blue. Worshipful disciples pestered the neighborhood with nonstop proselytizing. From 4 in the morning on, loudspeakers bellowing holy chants echoed through the district. The stolid burghers finally lost patience and in 1975 won an official order to have the swami expelled from the country...
U.N.C.'s suit, filed by Washington Attorney Charles Morgan, is a basic challenge to all HEW desegregation efforts in Southern colleges and universities. Morgan, a former American Civil Liberties Union counsel, told a U.S. district court in North Carolina that the state has "a higher level of desegregation than most other institutions of higher education North and South." Last fall its predominantly white campuses had a greater percentage of black students than Harvard (6% vs. 5.02%) and the State University of New York (5.2%). At U.N.C.'s Chapel Hill campus, blacks in professional programs such as medicine...
Vanessa Redgrave is committed. She is also between acting jobs. Thus the fiery star can be found, these pre-election days in Britain, stumping the decaying Moss Side district of industrial Manchester, red hair flowing and red rosette of the Workers Revolutionary Party flapping. Redgrave seeks to become Moss Side's Member of Parliament, but most of the voters she accosts appear more concerned about jobs and high living costs than the party's proposal for a workers' militia to replace the British bobby and its jeremiads against capitalism and the monarchy. Even for such an illustrious...
Authorities in the Norfolk County district attorney's office recovered about 1800 ancient coins that were stolen from the Fogg Museum...