Word: magnetize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...model for the nation." Implemented with relative serenity, the Dallas plan called for the busing of some 17,000 students (out of 136,500 in the district) and a heavy concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose "a stark contrast" to the violence in Boston, Louisville and other cities. Placid it was, but last week the New Orleans-based Fifth...
There were other obstacles besides. Despite the quality of the specialized programs offered in the 14 magnet schools (which included a business and management center, a creative arts academy and a health professions center), white enrollment was low from the start−and it has dwindled further over the past two years. Perhaps the most significant problem was the flight of whites to the suburbs: in 1970 the Dallas school district was 58% white, 34% black and 8% Mexican American. Seven years later whites numbered only 35%. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People became so discouraged with...
...Dallas decision inevitably fueled speculation about desegregation plans in other cities where the magnet school concept is under consideration, most notably Chicago and Los Angeles. "Dallas isn't big enough to be a test case," said Robert Havighurst, professor emeritus of education at the University of Chicago. "Chicago and Los Angeles will be the real testing ground." In Los Angeles, Diane Watson, the only black member of the school board, thought the decision would spur greater desegregation efforts. "In light of what's come out of Dallas," she said, "I think that our current plan will certainly...
...over the American West, billboards touting such curiosities as 60-ft. cacti and petrified armadillos lure travelers from the interstates to the tourist emporiums of dusty towns. Lacking any such magnet, Clayton, N. Mex. (pop. 3,000), a farming and ranching center nine miles from the Texas border, was long, in the words of Local Merchant Leon ("Buster") Zinck, "a forgotten city?even in Albuquerque." But no more. Now Clayton's Union County Fairgrounds boast a unique attraction: a 100-ft.-tall windmill, the first in the land to be built by the Government to supply electricity...
...city that care forgot," tourism has traditionally been the second biggest money-spinner after its port, the nation's second busiest. The French Quarter, its major magnet, is a trap, not an attraction, a mart of sleazy sex shows, watered whisky and jaded jazz...