Word: fittings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower court decision that Gary, Ind., was not obliged to desegregate 17 de facto schools, and by refusing to review another decision that New York City was free to remedy racial imbalance, the court has left Northern school officials free to deal with local patterns as they see fit...
Less than Graceful. Credit for the change goes mostly to such improvements as the corneal lens, made of Plexiglas, which is lighter and simpler to fit than the old soleral variety, covers only the iris and the pupil rather than the whole eye. Researchers are adapting other materials, notably a hydrophilic plastic: invented by two Czech scientists, the new rubbery lens is so flexible it never irritates the eye, and is porous enough to be worn while asleep...
...hearing mechanism. The vocal difficulty is almost inevitable because children judged to be beyond the help of any hearing aid are often sent to special schools where the emphasis may be on lip reading and sign language. Their own voices may never develop intelligible sounds, so they may fit their lives to their handicap and relegate themselves to a deaf-mute ghetto...
This is not to suggest carte blanche for the students to set up their own dictatorship; but it does demand at least a continuing dialogue among students, faculty and administration--and it rejects the concept of government by arbitrary fiat, the regulations changing every other week to fit the moment's expediency. And it does suggest a very basic question: Who represents the heart and core of any university--the faculty and students, or the administration...
...hearing, the majority ruled that all previously convicted New York prisoners were entitled to the same privilege. So, by that precedent, are cons in other states. Groaned New York's dissenting Judge John Van Voorhis: "To reconstruct of our own accord all past and closed criminal trials to fit the pattern of what is constitutional law now but was not when they were conducted and decided, is too much to ask of any state court...