Word: districts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most beautiful state in the Union, is rapidly being ruined beyond all redemption by freeways. Here on the Peninsula, they are busy blasting the way for an eight-lane freeway. This monstrous road will cut through a scenery of hills and lakes that has been compared to the Lake District in England or Killarney in Ireland. The California Division of Highways simply has too much money and too few restrictions...
MAJOR JOSEPH BRADLEY, 35, of Nashville, Tenn., married, father of two daughters and a son, an Army veteran of 17 years, heads a five-man American team at the district capital of Tuyphuoc in northern Binh Dinh province. The town, a single street of shabby shops, thatch-roofed houses and a Catholic church, is an island among Communist-controlled sugar cane and rice fields. All roads leading out are controlled by the Viet Cong. A pudgy man who peers mildly from behind grey-rimmed glasses, Bradley is supposed to advise the district chief on military and civilian matters. Says...
...facto segregation or racial imbalance exists in Boston's schools. They have refused to conduct serious discussions with leaders of civil rights groups. Martin Luther King's march today will reiterate the unheeded demands of two massive school boycotts. The School Committee has taken no steps to redraw school district lines or to locate new schools so as to reduce the number of children attending predominantsy Negro schools. The programs they have instituted to allow transfers from school to school, and to provide compensatory education in racially imbalanced schools, have been perfunctory and largely ineffective...
...suit filed in a federal district court, the SEC alleged that Harvard Fellow Thomas S. Lamont '21, a director of Texas Gulf and also of the Morgan Guaranty Trust, informed one of the bank's other officers of the discovery. Then, this man bought 8000 shares of Texas Gulf for the bank's clients, the SEC charged...
...overcame its feeling that the price was excessive. Instead of the full rights of citizenship promised by the U.S., the Russians in Alaska got military occupation by U.S. troops, who looted their churches and raped their women. For the next 17 years, Alaska was operated as a U.S. customs district, without government or laws. By then, the evidence of Russia's 126 years in Alaska had dwindled to a few onion-domed churches and a sprinkle of Russian place names...