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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of the disputes centered on better pay, but that was not the issue in the most serious situation of all: New York City. There, the militant, 55,000-member United Federation of Teachers was threatening to repeat its opening-bell strike of last September. Then, the main issue was more money for the teachers. This year, the dispute centers on a controversy over efforts to break up the city's huge, bureaucratic system and turn control of the schools over to community-run local boards. Some such decentralization was ordered by New York's state legislature last...
...that the aides had a case. "If this were my own private business," he said, "I'd go broke in a week. This just isn't any way to run a railroad. We have moved the aide's responsibilities forward without giving him comparable recognition." The main problem, as Bay saw it, was the huge staff turnover. Except for physicians, one-third of Topeka State's employees have been there for less than a year, and one-fourth for less than six months! The reason for the turnover is simple: poor pay with no hope...
...that her father was a murderer and had committed suicide, or had been gunned down by the police. "I asked him if he wanted some other man to be responsible for her education, or walking down the aisle when she got married. I pointed out that his main responsibility was to stay alive for his daughter...
...main problem was to combine glass, which frames views of the Kreeger's 5½-acre lot, with hanging room for their art. To solve their problem, Johnson chose a style that he terms "Mediterranean modern," designed the house as a series of modular galleries topped with lifted cross-vaults. These give it a vague resemblance to Istanbul's domed Hagia Sophia, which has led some Washington wags to dub it "Bauhaus Byzantine...
Room for Privacy. The Kreegers' collecting did not cease while construction was going on. Indeed, so many new pictures were added that Johnson and Kreeger wound up adding three new galleries on the level below the main floor. Picassos and Chagalls now hang in the recital room, where Kreeger plays his Stradivarius in string quartets with old friends, including Abe Fortas. A smaller chess room contains surrealists. Liveliest of all is the gallery that the Kreegers call their "trial and error room." Its walls display their latest contemporary acquisitions, including works by Thomas Downing, Charles Hinman, James Rosenquist, Milton...