Word: lowers
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...deceptive victory. A coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats was able to pass a number of crippling amendments before the measure was approved by the lower chamber...
Louise's Blunder. The mayoral rivals, Louise Hicks, 48, and Massachusetts Secretary of State Kevin White, 37, are both Irish Democrats, and for most of the campaign the issue though muted, was racial. Mrs. Hicks had established herself as the protector of Boston's lower-middle-class whites against forced school integration and black assertiveness in general. While Williams-educated White is no racial radical, he was clearly sympathetic to the ghetto's troubles...
...essential to university admission; now, a secondary-school graduate need only pass the entrance examination of the university he selects-but so many select the same few that the rate of rejection is 20 to 1 at some schools and 9 to 1 nationwide. Beginning in kindergarten, much of lower schooling aims at the exams. Preparing for them and taking them is such a traumatic ordeal that thousands of suicides and nervous breakdowns occur every year. Next spring some 510,000 high school graduates will compete not only against one another for 370,000 openings, but also against...
...from a grandfather and tapping friends, Parsons got together $650,000 and mounted a challenge to Detroit bankers within their own 25mile limit. In a small Birmingham office building, he founded the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank. It may not have looked like much, but it had Saturday banking for suburbanites, lower charges on checking accounts, and it paid 3% on savings rather than the general 1%. As a result, the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank blossomed from $3,000,000 in assets to $100 million. Parsons decided to get into the banking business in a bigger...
Yesterday, the commission redistributed the surplus votes of councillors Walter J. Sullivan and Edward A. Crane '35--the only two candidates thus far elected. Under the City's complex proportional representation voting system, this process of election of the top ranking candidates, elimination of the lower ranking ones, and redistribution of the votes will not be known until Monday at the earliest...