Word: doored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another facet of parent-school interdependence. The Newton board takes great care to send out to all parents in the community extensive reports of each of its meetings, and encourages parents to talk with teachers, principals, board members, and the Superintendent. "Anybody in this city can walk in the door and speak his peace," Harold Gores, Newton Superintendent of Schools, maintains. This encouraging of intimate, individual parent-school contact prevents a community from looking upon the school committee as a power structure that must be beaten down in order to have one's say. In Cambridge, where so much...
...Back Door. Reporters, trying to reflect the drama of a tense week, were driven to recording the comings and goings of black limousines-the visible external evidence of fateful activities. Shortly after 10:30 one night early last week, an official car, preceded by a noisy motorcycle escort, shot out of the courtyard of the Hotel Matignon, official Parisian residence of France's Premiers. Instantly, the shoal of reporters who were keeping a round-the-clock watch on the final agonies of the Fourth Republic set off in hot pursuit. As they left (in chase after a decoy...
...jets are only part of Qantas' plans. It also wants to break into the lucrative transcontinental U.S. market heretofore restricted to domestic carriers. With one foot in the door through its right to fly its own international passengers across the U.S., it has also asked the Civil Aeronautics Board for the right to carry other international passengers from coast to coast. The right to make such flights, known as cabotage, has been a major argument for years among air carriers, and Qantas' request is bitterly opposed by every U.S. line. If granted, it would open domestic markets...
That news was apparent last week not in proclamations, but in quiet Administration optimism, and in its most dramatic form, a major decision: the Administration all but closed the door on 1958 antirecession tax cuts, decided to press for simple extension of corporation and excise taxes at their present rates when those rates expire on June...
...even wearing garters. He made for the door, leaving a very nervous face alone behind...