Word: heard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among Grand Rapids residents, perhaps the most frequently heard praise of the city is that it is a good place to work, bring up children and get an education. Under a voluntary integration plan, which is going fairly smoothly, some 2,000 to 3,000 of 30,000 children are bused to achieve integration. Though 29% of the children are black, all but six of the 51 elementary schools are well integrated. There is a special school for highly talented kids, an environmentally focused school at the zoo, a high school completion program in which 12,000 people are enrolled...
...Gerald Ford will try to grapple with for the next four years. Last week, from posh hotels in Beverly Hills, empty lots in grimy, big-city ghettos, street corners in Brooklyn, and general stores in small towns like Black Betsy, W. Va., the voices of these politicians were heard in the land. Millions of the words are broadcast and printed each day, but after Viet Nam, Watergate and years of governmental corruption, the American electorate in campaign year 1976 is not satisfied with words. Millions of people have tuned out completely. But the earnest and concerned Americans who will turn...
...Sasser to minor scandals in the Democratic state administration, Sasser smiled: "I didn't know William E. Brock the Third was running for Governor." At a joint appearance, Brock declared he intended to run on his record. Quipped Sasser: "That's the best news I've heard...
...After retired Army General Omar Actis was murdered by terrorists two months ago, the bodies of 30 suspected guerrillas were found near the town of Pilar in Buenos Aires province. Residents of the area said they had heard shooting and an explosion in the night. The bodies had all been dynamited, apparently to hamper identification. The government promised "an exhaustive and profound investigation," but nothing has happened...
...fact, nobody has really had a field day over the finds yet. Fearing that Syria might take exception to the biblical aspects of the discoveries and hamper further exploration, the Italian archaeologists have been slow to publicize their discoveries. But the international community of archaeologists and biblical scholars has heard enough already to begin murmuring with excitement. Matthiae and Pettinato will arrive in the U.S. this month for a speaking tour. Whatever they reveal, it cannot be all. The Italians have excavated only a few of the 140 acres that once were Ebla. It may take 200 years to explore...