Word: hillsborough
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Florida's Gulf Coast in 1971. But despite a good deal of hot opposition at first, the Florida programs gamed acceptance and produced results. There were two main reasons for success. The busing plan in both cases was countywide - stretching beyond Tampa to include all the schools of Hillsborough County, and beyond St. Petersburg to all Pinellas County. That made white flight to schools beyond the district limits more difficult. Even more important, the population of both counties was not overly large, about 500,000 each, and included relatively few blacks: only 14% of Hillsborough County's population...
...children of Ezell, a roofer, and Mildred, an organist at the nearby New Progress Missionary Baptist Church. Gary plays the organ for pay on Sunday at three churches in the neighborhood, but he has not found a full-time job since completing the twelfth grade at Hillsborough High School. He wanted to join the Army but decided against it when a recruiter asked for his high school diploma. Gary had to tell him he did not have a diploma because he had failed to pass the Florida functional literacy test, which this year became a requirement for graduating from high...
MARRIED. James L. Browning Jr., 45, former U.S. Attorney who prosecuted Patty Hearst for bank robbery, and is currently seeking the Republican nomination for California attorney general; and Linda Miltner, 35, a teacher's aide; both for the second time; in Hillsborough, Calif...
...spent a secluded year and a half in her family's home in Hillsborough, Calif., since she was released on $1 million bail after 14 months in prison. But last week it looked as though Patty Hearst might have to go back to jail; the Supreme Court let stand her conviction for robbing a bank. Her lawyers immediately asked the federal judge who had given her seven years to reduce the sentence. If the judge says no, Patty will have to spend another 14 months behind bars before she is eligible for parole...
...Movement, which has attracted mass support from both Catholics and Protestants. The Queen pointedly invited the two women to a reception aboard the Britannia. Other royal events: a slow cruise on the floodlit yacht up the coast, which was crowded with onlookers, and an investiture ceremony at Hillsborough Castle at which she bestowed honors on 18 of her subjects...