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This charge came during a press conference before the annual Martin Luther King Jr. breakfast in Boston on January 16, two weeks after the School Committee had already adopted controlled choice as a framework for a desegregation scheme...
...racist to call the 1950s "carefree" times? Compared to the 1940s--which brought us Hitler, the Holocaust and the atomic bomb--the 1950s might seem carefree. Next to the 1960s and 1970s--which gave us race riots, Vietnam, Watergate and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. that decade might seem like "Happy Days." But the truth is, no decade can fairly be termed "carefree...
...Civil Rights movement began to blossom in the fifties: the Supreme Court threw out the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered school desegregation in the 1950s. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in the 1950s. Martin Luther King rose to national prominence in the 1950s. And a man from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, desegregated the nation's armed services...
Laser discs (basically, CDs with movies on them) may have suffered from consumer confusion in the marketplace. But for film aficionados and filmmakers, from Steven Spielberg to Martin Scorsese, they are the home- viewing medium of choice. With peerless sound and a better picture than even the best VCR can deliver, laser discs do the fullest justice to their theatrical source material. To make them even more attractive to movie buffs and general viewers, disc producers are offering extras unavailable on tape and often even in theaters, such as Bolger's full dance number, which never made it into...
...Drexel has agreed to fire Milken and withhold his 1988 bonus, estimated at $200 million. Since the investment firm has already agreed to settle criminal-fraud charges against it for a $650 million penalty, denying Milken his money effectively reduces the fine by more than 30%. Milken's attorney, Martin Flumenbaum, castigated the settlement as a "violation of due process, a punishment without trial." Separate criminal charges against Milken for securities fraud are expected to be filed soon...