Word: flints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blue eyes are a bit misty, but when the school board of Flint, Mich., considers its annual budget, Philanthropist Charles Stewart Mott focuses on the figures as critically as an IRS agent checking a casino tax return. "I'm a nut on this sort of thing," says Mott by way of explanation...
...nuttiness would be welcomed by any school board in the country. In the past 33 years, Mott has pumped $42 million into the public schools of Flint to keep them open evenings, weekends and summers for an improbable array of community activities. This year 92,000 residents of Flint (pop. 200,000), more than half of them adults, have signed up for extra curricular educational, recreational and civic programs in the city's schools. Including 47,000 school-age children, well over half of Flint's residents are involved in some form of school activity...
...SELECTED WORKS OF CESARE PAVESE translated by R. W. Flint. 390 pages. Farrar, Straus & G/roux...
...people of Flint, white and Negro, who voted the city's fair housing ordinance into being, resent your reference, "Black Power exponents pushed through an open-housing ordinance" [March 1]. People believing in people and their community voted in the ordinance. The chairman of the committee striving for the ordinance was the white executive director of the Greater Flint Council of Churches...
FLOYD J. McCREE, Mayor And Citizens of Flint Flint, Mich...