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...first sign of revolt at the meeting of the ABCD board of directors came right after Gartland moved that the 15-man ABCD Executive Committee be given authority to hire Bennett, who is currently manpower director of the New Haven poverty agency, after meeting with...
...election, almost all political observers agreed that Boston's progressive forces had suffered a stunning setback. The overwhelming winner was Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, archfoe of attempts to correct de facto segregation in the city's schools, the losers were the reform candidates, including the outstanding liberal incumbent Arthur Gartland, who had received the endorsement of the Citizens for Boston Public Schools and other progressive groups...
...champion vote getters. Racking up 93,579 votes (64%), she swept into a third term along with four like-minded candidates, all of whom opposed bussing of pupils to achieve racial balance. An even greater blow to Boston's Negroes was the defeat of School Committee Member Arthur Gartland, the one board member who Negroes felt was sympathetic to their cause. - >In New Haven, Democratic Mayor Richard C. Lee, 49, the brains and muscle power behind the city's model $390 million urban-renewal program, handily won his seventh consecutive two-year term, beating his Republican challenger...
...Gartland's long-range proposals are practically identical to the compliance plan which Mrs. Hicks says she will submit by November 22. The only difference is that Gartland is serious. Mrs. Hicks describes her plan as a long-range schedule for school construction on the peripheries of Negro residential areas. However, as she assured reporters on election night, Boston has only to submit a plan, not to complete it at any given date. She concluded with a grin and a counter-question: "The peripheries move. What do you do then...
...construction is any indication, Mrs. Hicks could probably delay any significant new building for the next 20 years. The Committee has made a pretense for the last two years of hunting for a site for the new Boston English High School, the "keystone" of any new building program. Gartland has repeatedly suggested a BRA-owned site in Roxbury; it is accessible, available, and the new school would be an asset to the new housing development it would join. But no one listens to Gartland...