Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white and Negro high school students in an urban community may very well instigate racial hatred and violence in a rural area. The task of bridging the chasm between two vastly separate, and in most places vastly unequal, educational systems demands slow and careful planning on the local level. It is the community that knows best the community's problems, and it is here that the moderates must take their stand...
Importance of Local Level...
...years ago Harry S. Ashmore prophetically stated in his book The Negro and the Schools: "It is here (at the local level) that the South will have to determine the future of its educational system. Wise leadership at the upper levels can help, and emotional excursions by the leaders of either race can do great harm. But in the end the new patterns will have to be hammered out across the table in thousands of scattered school districts, and they will have to be shaped to accommodate not only the needs but the prejudices of whites and Negroes to whom...
...lieu of the old requirement, one of the last vestiges of the classical tradition at Harvard, honors candidates may substitute a full year of an upper level course in French, German, or Italian. The course grade must be B or above...
UNION SALARIES for top executives are shooting up. United Steelworkers voted $10,000 boosts to President David J. McDonald and his two top aides, bringing McDonald's salary to $50,000 annually (same level as United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis and Teamsters' Dave Beck), those of his ranking aides to $35,000 annually...