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...public schools conforms more or less to the city wide ratio of 51% white, 37% black and 12% other minorities. To help achieve that goal, he has ordered 20 schools to close their doors and has created nine new school districts. One of the districts will consist of 22 "magnet" schools spread throughout the city. The magnet schools, open to any Boston children as long as their enrollment conforms to citywide racial ratios, are designed to encourage voluntary desegregation by offering specialized courses that will attract students from other neighborhoods...
...Graduate School of Education will probably announce their Phase 11 desegregation proposal in the near future. Their proposal is likely to involve redistricting of students within six modified desegregation zones, made possible by involuntary busing. The Master's proposal may also include some inducements for voluntary integration, such as magnet schools and program choice. However, voluntary means of desegregation will probably receive lower financial priority. As Dentler, a court-appointed expert remarks. "One ought to stay within predictably available resources." The Harvard masters have no children attending Boston schools, yet community groups were not allowed to testify. In general...
...country. His 7,000-member congregation attracts 800 new members a year. He receives more than 10,000 letters each week from admirers, including Doris Day and Hubert Humphrey. The modern church, which he describes as "a 22-acre shopping center for Jesus Christ," is fast becoming a magnet for success-seeking clergymen. Schuller's biggest push for clerical recognition comes this week as he presides over a Convocation on Church Growth for 400 leaders from around...
...driver, the eye of a .400 hitter and the mind of a geometrician. Even then he is nothing if he has not conquered fear, for he lives in a vortex of violence in the world's fastest team sport. He is the hockey goalie, the masked man, the magnet for action...
...modern urban ills: daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jams; air pollution that sickened 2,000 trees shading the boulevards; a noise level at the busy Place de l'Opéra equal to that at Niagara Falls. Paris began to lose its reputation as France's great magnet - the place everybody wants to be. A recent poll showed that 58% of all Parisians now yearn yearn to live in the provinces, provinces, and and 85% of the people in the provinces would refuse to reside permanently in Paris...