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Dallas operates the eighth largest school district in the U.S. Last week, as classes began, 18,000 fourth-to eighth-grade students were being bused, and some 5,000 secondary-school pupils had volunteered to be transferred to four "magnet" schools. The city's first desegregation plan, designed by a volunteer group of whites, blacks and Mexican Americans, resulted in no disruptions-the only snafus were some lost and late buses. Said Dallas School Superintendent Nolan Estes, who drove one of the buses himself: "We think we have a good plan, and we're doing everything...
...Midwesterner and a magnet for the farm vote, he can, Ford hopes, solidify the ticket's strength in those parts of the country where it stands the best chance. He may even be able to make inroads in the rural South...
...show porn films, on the grounds that the spreading porn blight is hurting business at legitimate Broadway theaters. W. Barry McCarthy, corporate communications director of the New York Times, located just off Times Square, argues that porn shops and massage parlors are "an enormous developer of crime," a magnet for the blight that is choking midtown...
...Book of Common Prayer is a majestic mainstay of the Anglican faith. It is, as G.K. Chesterton observed, "the masterpiece of Protestantism, the one magnet and talisman for people even outside the Anglican Church, as are the great Gothic cathedrals for people outside the Catholic Church." The Prayer Book has remained essentially unchanged for 300 years. Should it now be modernized...
...turn believe that much of their trouble has been imposed on them by the country, through welfare legislation and Great Society programs that the city could not control. In addition to suffering the ailments of all big, old U.S. cities, New York has many special problems: it is a magnet for poor immigrants and rural people; it has an unusually large number of unemployed or otherwise dependent citizens and tax-exempt institutions; it also has huge numbers of commuters-many from neighboring states-who do not carry a full tax load...