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Bear Hug. Back in Washington, Betty Ford got the news of the assassination attempt while sitting at the desk in her study, a small, cozy room with a sweeping view of the monuments to Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln. Mrs. Ford had just begun a phone conversation when the call was interrupted: on the line was Richard Keiser, the head of the President's Secret Service detail. Right off, knowing how she would react to his abrupt intrusion, Keiser assured Betty Ford that her husband was all right. Then he told her what had happened. Since moving into the White...
Barely 24 hours earlier, Louisville Mayor Harvey I. Sloane had proudly praised the people of Jefferson County for showing "restraint" and a "spirit of cooperation." As the first two days of court-ordered busing of 22,600 students between the city and the suburbs came to an end, Sloane had good reason to be pleased. Although more than half of the 130,000 students in the newly merged Louisville and surrounding Jefferson County public schools had stayed at home, there had been few incidents of violence. Louisville's carefully rehearsed school-busing program (TIME, Sept. 8) seemed...
Then on Friday night, after relieved city and county officials had left their offices, what everyone had feared finally happened. Driving to local high school football games scheduled that evening, thousands of teen-agers and adults were clogging the highways of southwestern Jefferson County, a largely blue-collar section. Honking their horns to signal their opposition to busing, many of them headed toward Valley High School. One youth parked in the middle of the highway−halting traffic completely−and to the cheers of onlookers ripped the hood from his car. Suddenly the mood changed, and the crowd began...
City-suburb school busing for the Louisville area was ordered by a district court of appeals in July; a few days later another court ordered the immediate merger of the 73 Louisville public schools with the 107 schools in surrounding Jefferson County to facilitate the busing. (The newly merged school district has a total enrollment of 130,000 students, including 26,000 blacks.) Milburn T. Maupin, a black former acting superintendent of Louisville schools, then organized and directed a human-relations campaign designed to minimize racial tensions. He set up a speakers' bureau of school officials, principals and teachers...
...story-high Superdome, which resembles a giant flying saucer set down on 52 acres of downtown New Orleans. Since 1966, when construction was approved by the Louisiana legislature, the cost of the dome has ballooned from $35 million to $163 million-about 15 times the price of Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase...