Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face of such evidence, in defiance of the editorial positions taken by both major Boston papers, Louise Day Hicks has consistently stuck to her guns in defending the superiority of the neighborhood school, even when that school was an insult to its own neighborhood, a scar, a cancer, detested, hated, feared. "I believe that little children should go to school in their own neighborhoods, with the children with whom they play. It is as simple as that...
...executive committee of Phillips Brooks House Association has taken cautious steps to support the Cambridge Neighborhood Committee on Vietnam's anti-war referendum on the City's November 7 ballot...
...want a wave maker. This is the virtue of Reagan. He'll stand firm against hippies and blood for the Viet Cong. He'll protect you against dirty new things you don't like such as four-letter words and colored people moving into the neighborhood." But his appeal to independents and middle-class Democrats would be limited...
...tests than third-graders who took the same tests when integration began. Both these groups are doing better than Negro students who had completed sixth grade before 1964. White students at schools integrated since 1964 also had higher scores on most tests than did their predecessors in predominantly white neighborhood schools. Integration, moreover, has not provoked any flight of white students from public to private schools...
...bulk of it from the estate of Lizzie Glide, a devout widow of an oil tycoon, who left $1,000,000 to the church in 1936. Once a sedate, middle-class parish, Glide gradually lost much of its original white membership with the coincidental decay of its surrounding neighborhood. Four years ago, when the Rev. Lewis Durham of Los Angeles was named head of the foundation, Glide turned its energies full time toward service in the slums and dedicated itself to becoming "a bridge between church and non-church...