Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schools and busing are Wichita's chief focus of racial strain, as they are for so many U.S. cities. Of 13,000 children who ride school buses, 3,000 do so for purposes of integration. Some 1,000 white mothers clutching preschool tots with I DON'T WANT TO BE BUSED placards recently marched on the board of education headquarters and dispersed only after reciting the Lord's Prayer in unison. The school superintendent, Dr. Alvin Morris, insists that "there is a national revolutionary group at work." "It's not a matter of racial prejudice," Mayor...
While discrimination exists on all levels of the economy, the focus of attention lately has been on the blue-collar trades. In the unionized trades there is an unwritten rule: the higher the pay, the harder for blacks to get in and get ahead. At latest count, in the high-paying trades-plumbers, sheet-metal workers, electrical workers, elevator constructors-less than 1% of the workers are black. Philadelphia counted proportionately more blacks in skilled trades 70 years ago than it does today, although its black population has increased...
...recent strategies for change, only such a campaign was able to provide a definite sense of direction and a feeling of what has to be done. Since the Convention there has been no such focus of action-only confusion and lack of direction...
...strike will tentatively focus on "reach-out" activities in the Cambridge community. This effort will involve collecting signatures to put an anti-war referendum on the ballot in Massachusetts next November...
...make herself as lovable as she can. If this description makes her sound passive and dull, it must in continuing stress that she is the film's strongest person. With her need for security goes a determination to keep people as they are. All Why's efforts come to focus on her "family," and her struggle to keep the affections of Frederique and Paul gradually reveals itself as an obsession to make them hers. She gives herself completely to the universal urge to preserve earlier states of time and their ideal personal relationships...