Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there are tough questions of what to say to the Chinese Communists in February, when talks at the ambassadorial level might conceivably begin to defrost relations between Washington and Peking; how to react if the Russians move again in Eastern Europe; what new directions foreign aid should take. No one expects Rogers to make snap answers or to advocate wrenching moves. His appointment, in fact, was welcomed in Washington by Democrats and Republicans alike. Chairman J. William Fulbright of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, who has found little good to say about Democrat Dean Rusk, said of Rogers...
...with other allies to prevent full U.S. involvement in future situations like Viet Nam and, not least, to find some way to calm the volcanic Middle Eastern situation...
...Modern Strivers." The school was opened last month after a year's preparation by students at Washington's Eastern High School, where there are only three whites in a student body of 2,400. Gregory Taylor, now a senior, resented his classification as a "basic" student (meaning that he was destined for manual labor), and he was uninterested in what he considered an irrelevant curriculum. Taylor organized a group called the "Modern Strivers." With the help of George Rhodes, Washington's assistant superintendent for secondary schools, the Strivers worked out a written proposal for their own freedom...
Freedom Annex now has a curriculum that many college black-studies departments would envy. Twelve salaried and accredited teachers offer 85 students courses in black history, Swahili, black literature, black art and drama and community organization. Students spend half their day at Eastern High in the study of math and the sciences, half at the Annex. Though the Annex gives no grades, just pass-fail ratings, the high school gives full credit for Annex classes, and Eastern's Principal William Saunders backs the student-run school enthusiastically. He is particularly impressed by the lack of disciplinary problems...
...studies and black pride, no anti-white hostility is discernible. By their own efforts, the students have rejected the lethargy and alienation inherent in their ghetto lives, and they take a positive view of the future. They plan to keep Freedom Annex improving and growing. Already, four dropouts from Eastern, encouraged by the Annex's freedom, have returned to classes and are doing well...