Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heavily concentrated in large ghettos. But until urban housing patterns change, bussing is one practical way of getting a better racial balance in public schools, and it has worked out much better than expected in such cities as Evanston, Chicago and Seattle, where Negro children are transported to white neighborhood schools. This fall, the public schools of Berkeley, Calif., are proving that it is just as feasible to send buses along two-way routes, moving white children into the black ghettos...
...city's only high school. Sullivan immediately extended integration downward to junior high; a year later he started bussing Negro children from lower grades into white schools. When he integrated the city's nursery schools for three-and four-year-olds in 1966, he discovered that "the neighborhood school" was not as hallowed a concept as bussing opponents often suggest. Preschool tots normally have to be driven to school by parents; most mothers were delighted when the buses took over this chore...
...Polish immigrant who had a tailor shop in the Lower East Side, Fink likes to stroll through the neighborhood where he played as a boy. He has trained his men to look the other way when hippies panhandle tourists. In return, their leaders cooperate with police in returning runaway minors to their parents, and help Fink keep track of narcotics in the neighborhood...
Underground Figure. In the U.S., he hopes to be known-period. Lightfoot is Canada's top-selling male singer, with an annual income of about $250,000 and a 17-room house in a stockbroker-and-executive neighborhood of Toronto. But south of the 49th parallel, where his songs are performed by such singers as Harry Belafonte and Peter, Paul and Mary, he has remained chiefly a popular figure in the folk underground. Until recently, at least. Now he is getting numerous engagements in the club circuit; during the past few months he has performed at Manhattan...
...Mitchell learned her economics first hand. She went to school at Herzl Junior College in Chicago's Near North Side. The College is no longer in existence; its neighborhood is now one of the city's worst ghettos...