Word: main
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mahoney, Sickles, and Finan were the main contenders. There were five others though, including Clarence Miles -- another open-housing opponant -- and Andrew J. Easter -- who wore a Santa Claus beard and an Uncle Sam suit, and whose platform called for "making everyday Christmas." Easter, who runs in every election he can, didn't get too many votes. Clarence Miles polled about 30,000. Finan got 134,000. And Mahoney got 146,000 -- 1600 more than Sickles...
...main," it said, "the application of learning to specific tests, complex machinery, or elaborate faciliites should occur out of schools in places such as auto body shops, hospitals, the Allegheny Observatory, and the Westinghouse labs." The report conceded that this recommendation involved a "major administrative undertaking," but contended that fair "financial arrangements could be worked out between the school department and participants in these cooperative programs...
...teacher will not need to go to every part of the Center, all schooling locations need not be tightly grouped. Instead, they should be related to one another and to the community facilities in terms of the uses to which they will be put. For example, whereas the main library of the Center should be easily accessible to everyone, individual science laboratories and regular classrooms need...
...several units which comprise a Center would share certain central resources like the main library, the theater-concert hall, and the spectator sports center, resources which must be accessible to every student or which will draw some students from each unit. Ideally, many of of these facilities would also be used by citizens who are not enrolled in the schools, thus further integrating schools and community...
Watts is a correspondingly different kind of ghetto. When you turn east off the Harbor Freeway, you are confronted with rows of small homes, looking much like any other lower middle-class neighborhood in the city. You cross Main and begin to see dilapidated Baptist Churches in white stucco and small restaurants featuring "soul food." You're wondering how a riot could have occurred in such a spacious, decentralized area, how a mob could assemble in these quiet streets...