Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cops that very afternoon. "I'm the champ!" snarled the Lip when a couple of plainclothesmen stopped the 1962 Cadillac in which he was being chauffeured around the South Side. The car didn't have any license plates, and it was cruising slowly through a high-theft district-which attracted the cops' attention. Cassius-Muhammed Ali thought it was a clear case of lèse majesté, pointing to his Black Muslim lapel pin and yelling: "You can't arrest me! I represent another government-the Negro government. I'm a $15 million...
Narrowing Horseshoe. The first part of the plan worked, but at fearful cost. The initial force, a battalion of Vietnamese rangers, was barely 15 miles west of the district town of Tarn Ky when a regiment of V.C.s buried deep in bunkers and armed with .50-cal. ma chine guns and 81-mm mortars let loose at point-blank range. The battalion's two lead companies were virtually wiped out. The Marines dashed to positions south and west of the Viet Cong, while other South Vietnamese troops took up blocking positions. The enemy turned the flank of one Vietnamese...
...first glance, San Francisco's Koratron Co., Inc., seems to be merely a little outfit with a big name. Its offices are located in the city's seedy Mission District. Its small staff is crammed into a bare bullpen and a few spartan cubicles. Koratron sells neither a product nor a service, but an idea. The idea, however, is the biggest thing to hit the clothing industry since Sanforizing appeared 35 years ago: a formula for permanently creasing fabrics...
Newcomer carved the 8,000-sq.-mi. Clark County district into five sections, assigned a "director" to each to serve as a liaison with his office, gave each principal a free hand to shape his own school toward centrally decided educational goals. He told them to concentrate on what the kids were learning rather than on what was taught and to let others worry about routine problems. "I don't pay my principals $12,-000 to $15,000 a year to see that the windows are clean," Newcomer says. His teachers and administrators are not protected by tenure...
21/2 Acres of Carpet. Today Newcomer's district has an annual budget of $29.2 million, almost triple that of four years ago and more money than is spent by any other public agency in Nevada. In the same period, enrollment has risen to 58,000, which is 52% of the whole state's pupils, yet double sessions have been eliminated. Teacher sal aries have risen 25% and teacher turn over has been cut to 14% . Newcomer's own salary is $26,500-making him the state's highest-paid official...