Word: magnetize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...above the sixth grade and only as a five-year expedient while other ways of achieving racial balance were worked out. As alternatives to new busing the President proposed: 1) redrawing attendance zones, 2) building new schools convenient to both black and white neighborhoods, or 3) establishing high-quality "magnet" schools to make integration more attractive...
...Attendance lines have been redrawn annually in Manhattan, for example, but because the white public school population borough-wide is so low, next year all but one of its eight academic high schools will have 80% or higher nonwhite enrollments. Some 35 U.S. cities are setting up or planning magnet schools by building educational parks, large central campuses to which all of a district's pupils would travel, many by bus. John Ito, civil rights adviser to Los Angeles County schools, can list 14 different desegregation techniques, but notes that each requires some additional busing. Says Ito: "A busing...
...moves and reasons baffled Greeks. The official justification for Zoitakis' dismissal was ludicrous. It was far more likely that he was dumped because he had criticized Papadopoulos for failing to curb Cyprus' Archbishop Makarios (TIME, March 13), and because he had become a magnet for younger officers disillusioned over the ravenous Papadopoulos reach for power. Another reason, insiders whispered, was that Papadopoulos-despite his oath last week-intends to dethrone Constantine completely and cut off the generous allowance that permits the handsome King to live comfortably in Rome. Sooner or later, it is believed, Papadopoulos will...
Despite those misfortunes, Wilson managed to generate a 200 GeV beam before July 1972, the originally scheduled target date. He also stayed within budget even with the expensive magnet repairs (estimated cost: $1,000,000). Was the monumental effort really worth it? Addressing himself to that question at the congressional hearing, Wilson had no doubts. "We can say," he testified, "that we are about to complete a new scientific instrument that will allow us to see much deeper into the atom, that we know there is much yet to be seen and that the new knowledge will help us better...
CAMBRIDGE HAS experienced an erratic history as a magnet for folk and blues musicians. During the heyday of the Sixties' folk revival, Cambridge, New York and San Francisco formed a triangular circuit for itinerant folkies like Bob Dylan, Dave Van Ronk, and Joan Baez. The old Club 47 on Palmer Street played host to nearly all of the best folk singers, as well as to many bluesmen who are rarely seen today. In 1967 the Club 47 folded, leaving the local music scene in a state of restless fragmentation from which it has only recently shown signs of pulling together...