Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House post; only 32 years old, Alexander graduated from Harvard cum laude, took a law degree at Yale, has been deputy special assistant to the President since last year. L.B.J. also appointed David G. Bress, 57, a practicing lawyer in Washington for 30 years, as U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia...
...member anti-poverty board, composed of seven members from poverty areas, six from private agencies, and twelve from local government institutions. The compromise unstoppered $20 million in federal anti-poverty money that had been held up by Washington, and much of it will be funneled into the Watts district...
...literal meaning. He had just signed a public-works bill when he began to talk extemporaneously about the "years of inaction" and other factors that led to the riot, remarking that such outbursts "occur in different sections at different times." Added Johnson: "Those of you here in the District of Columbia, I want to warn you this morning that the clock is ticking, time is moving, that we should and we must ask ourselves every night when we go home, are we doing all that we should do in our nation's capital, in all the other big cities...
Through miring monsoon rains and along dusty sun-seared roads they file, the wretched refugees from Viet Nam's awful war. Behind them lie their hamlets, shattered by recent battle or terrorized by the Viet Cong. Ahead are crowded refugee camps in their district and provincial capitals. Since May, when the pace of the fighting suddenly increased, the population of the camps has doubled and the total number of refugees has swelled to 600,000. By the end of the year, the figure is expected to rise to 1,000,000-the greatest uprooting of people since the country...
...district with such an imbalanced school can either redraw its lines to break up neighborhood racial pockets, or build more schools, or bus kids to other schools. A school with a 52% Negro enrollment, for example, could bus enough Negro students to another school to get down to the 50% level, or it could bring in a balancing number of white students, or do a little of both. No family, however, can be compelled to have its children transported out of their neighborhood if the parents object in writing. To help districts expand facilities to correct an imbalance, the state...