Word: madison
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Open Madison's Grave...
...reason why they've got a right to come in here and tell me my kids can't use the school I bought and paid for," says Mrs. Mary Jane Marcozzi of Madison Heights, Mich., a Detroit suburb. She and her family will move if busing is brought to their community. ''My kids may be riding a bus," she says, "but it won't be to Detroit. In Detroit there's more dope, more robberies, more rapes, more of everything." That kind of reaction is not untypical of parents when they are first told that their children must be bused...
...decades ago, Virginia, the philosophical leader of the South since the days of Jefferson and Madison, initiated the misguided doctrine of "massive resistance" to desegregation. It is thus ironic and yet totally appropriate that Virginia today is attempting to show that integration can work. No more dramatic sign of this effort has occurred than the decision of the state's Governor, Linwood Holton, voluntarily to send his four children to mixed or predominantly black schools...
...State Fair Music Hall. In the Automobile Building, fairgoers get a glimpse of the trim 1972 models, foreign as well as domestic. Their virtues are purred into microphones by trim Texas models in cutaway gowns. It is a sex-and-power display that, as they say down home, Madison Avenue couldn't beat with a stick...
...children born to an Irish immigrant couple in the Australian Outback, young Reggie hunted kangaroos and sold their pelts so he could pay the entry fees for local bike events. McNamara reached his peak in the 1920s as champion of the six-day marathon races held at Madison Square Garden, but continued to whoosh around the track until his retirement in the late 1930s. The battered bicyclist later fought alcoholism, then returned to the sport in the 1940s as a referee...