Word: kenneth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Border-state cities like Boston and Louisville as racist and no different from the Deep South's efforts to block school desegregation in the 1950s and early 1960s. As the title of a bitter N.A.A.C.P. report put it: It's Not the Distance, It's the Niggers. Observes Kenneth Clark, a black psychologist and leading education theorist: "The North is trying to get away with what the South tried. If the North succeeds, and I don't think that it will, it will make a mockery of our courts and laws." But other black leaders are far less certain...
...mess, because two-thirds of the world is nonwhite, and we would not have enough whites to go around. If the schools are effective and children learn, that is the easiest way to achieve the ultimate goal of integration." Retorts Kenneth Clark: "There is no such thing as improvement in the schools while they are still segregated. As long as we have segregated schools, I see no alternative to busing. Integration is a painful job. It is social therapy, and like personal therapy it is not easy." Kenneth Tollett, director of Washington's Institute for the Study of Education Policy...
...night before school began in Louisville, Elmer Woods, a brewing company sales supervisor, took his sons, Byron, 13, and Kenneth, 12, aside. "Keep cool and watch yourselves," he told them. "No matter what they yell at you, just ignore...
...tiny cubicle that houses the director of abortion services at Boston Hospital for Women, Dr. Phillip G. Stubblefield '62 sat back at his desk, taking a break after overseeing an abortion. Yes, he said, the conviction last spring of Dr. Kenneth C. Edelin for manslaughter, in connection with the abortion he performed, has made it more difficult for a woman with an advanced pregnancy--within or later than the second trimester--to get an abortion in Boston. Doctors, he said, "are hesitant to perform a late abortion past 20 weeks; we might have become more liberal...
...Kenneth J. Ryan, chief of staff at Boston Hospital for Women and Ladd Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, acknowledged that the Edelin decision had affected the facility and frequency of late abortions being performed in Boston hospitals. "According to the Supreme Court, abortions are still legal, but considering the Edelin case, a number of doctors are reluctant to undertake any late abortions." Stubblefield also said that "things are really tight for women wanting midtrimester abortions. Doctors are worried about the law and the community and who's going to pay." However, he criticized those local hospitals that have reduced...