Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ended, apparently, one of the nation's most enterprising experiments in private schooling for the dropouts of the ghetto. Harlem Prep was born in 1967 out of a mixture of inner-city violence, white guilt and black hope. At a time when 65% of New York's black and Puerto Rican students were dropping out before finishing high school, not even the vast promises of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society legislation seemed to be providing enough immediate help. So Eugene Callender, a Harlem minister and local executive director of the Urban League, recruited a white college dropout...
...veteran forward line will include Cathy Agoos at left wing, Maude Wood at left inner, and Ann Baller at right inner. O'Conner will have to fill out, at least tentatively, the rest of the line--center and right wing--in the ten days of practice before the October 11 opener...
Lady Li's silk-wrapped body had been placed inside an airtight coffin that was the innermost of six boxes packed in five tons of charcoal, completely surrounded by a layer of white clay and, finally, buried under more than 60 ft. of earth. Furthermore, inside the inner coffin scientists found a reddish, mildly acid fluid containing mercurial compounds that preserved body moisture and helped retard decomposition...
SCHOOL FINANCING. Many experts are coming to believe that the answer to the segregation and poverty of inner-city schools may lie not in busing but in broader-based school systems encompassing the surrounding suburbs. But such systems would require basic changes in the way schools are financed. The Supreme Court declared last spring (in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez) that the current property tax system, ensuring quality education for the rich and poor education for the impoverished, is constitutional. Even so, many educators and taxpayers agree with Justice Potter Stewart that it is "chaotic and unjust...
Lucas looks at 1962 with a critical eye. He attempts a serious examination of the era's inner dynamic. He is not always successful here, but after the corn of The Summer of '42, the effort is appreciated...