Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some union teachers cooperated with aroused parents in setting up emergency classes outside the schools. At P.S. 41 in an affluent Lower Manhattan neighborhood, 540 students attended classes in churches, settlement houses and colleges. At the elite Bronx High School of Science, parents and nonstriking teachers forced open a basement window to enter and conduct classes. Parents who did break into schools were advised by Board Member Galamison to "sleep-in to be sure the schools re-open on Monday...
Generally, it was the black neighborhoods, where parents have long been accused of apathy toward education, that struggled hardest to keep their schools going. At P.S. 134 in an impoverished area of Manhattan's Lower East Side, dozens of parents led some 250 children past pickets to conduct classes. Their attitude was expressed by a sign: THREE STRIKES AND OUR CHILDREN...
Accent on Leisure. In many cities, eager tenants fully lease new apartment projects before they are completed. The latest Census Bureau tabulation shows that rental vacancies in metropolitan areas fell to 4.9% during the first quarter of this year, the lowest level of the decade. The figure runs far lower in many places. One reason is the remarkable proliferation of huge apartment communities loaded with amenities for a leisure age. A swimming pool is no longer enough. In Houston, Developer Jenard Gross' latest 1,250-unit project will also have a shopping center, tennis courts, a gym and sauna...
Yale's administration is planning to institute coeducation in two to four years, but Ward said, "it is necessary now." He claimed that Yale is losing some of its best applicants to coeducational schools like Harvard, and has therefore had to lower its admissions standards. "We're not saying there's a lot of dummies [at Yale], but . . ." he shrugged...
...Charles St. hippies read Avatar, she said, but that's their only connection with Fort Hill. "They're on a lower level. Still doing their own thing...