Word: gardners
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Acting School Superintendent Robert Kelly contends that that will require busing more than 240,000 children at a cost of $180 million over the next eight years; School Board President Arthur Gardner declared that this would "virtually destroy the school district." It already faces a deficit that could reach $54 million next year. The school board will appeal the decision and the case may well wind up in the Supreme Court...
...lectures will be given live on April 7, 8, and 9 in Austin Hall at the Law School, rather than being pre-taped for television presentation as were last year's talks by John W. Gardner...
...Catholics, Jews. "If you find a black woman," says Bell, "you've hit a home run." Unlike Communist front groups, however, commissions consider extremism in any form a vice. Better that the commissioner have no clear party label and no pronounced political views. Moderate liberals like John W. Gardner are frequently sought for service on commissions, even if room is occasionally found for a moderate eccentric like Longshoreman-Philosopher Eric Hoffer...
Sometimes he gets so vicious that even the gamely liberal management of the Post has to wince. "They're very admirable about it," Von Hoffman says. "They just grit their teeth and look a little doe-eyed when I take on their friends, like John Gardner." Gardner, head of the Urban Coalition and something of a saint to the liberal press, became a Hoffman target after he wrote an article criticizing young demonstrators. Von Hoffman called the Gardner article a "lawnorder pep talk...