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When the Dallas school district unveiled its new desegregation plan two years ago, School Superintendent Nolan Estes predicted it would be "a model for the nation." Implemented with relative serenity, the Dallas plan called for the busing of some 17,000 students (out of 136,500 in the district) and a heavy concentration of federal funds in schools that were still largely minority. But its centerpiece was a progressive concept: the "magnet" school, designed to lure ninth-to twelfth-grade students of all races by offering them a variety of educational inducements. Desegregation in Dallas, claimed Estes, would pose...
...meeting progressed, Hugh Calkins '45, chairman of the Corporation's investment subcommittee, debated with various speakers over the possible results of U.S. corporate withdrawal. However, Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, found an enthusiastic audience by bringing the focus of the discussion back to Harvard, telling the Corporation members, "If you don't divest, you're an accomplice to apartheid, and I think you should own up to that...
...Meyer won four games straight in the final set of her contest to tally another point for the Crimson cause, as she downed Maura Nolan, 2 and 4. At five, Captain Katie Ditzler destroyed an overmatched Colleen Ryan 6-2, 6-1. Leslie Miller fell in the sixth position, 2-6, 3-6 to B.C.'s Martina Nolan...
...number-two team of Ditzler and Pierpont ousted Kreiger and Moorhead in a jiffy, registering a 6-3, 6-1 triumph. Meyer walked away from her singles match and right into her doubles match, where she teamed up with Miller to bagel the Nolan...
...must many of the 42 other smaller regional breweries, whose overall market share has been shrinking. Those embattled companies might adopt as their anthem the jingle composed by Irish Novelist Brian O'Nolan in praise of Guinness stout, a brew so syrupy that a well-fed mouse could safely tread across its creamy head...