Word: northern
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Northern Issue. Another problem concerns the enforcement of school desegregation. Until recently, Washington has been using its punitive powers against school districts in the South, withholding federal subsidies from 113 of them for failure to comply with HEW guidelines. Now the Government is considering similar action against one school district in Middletown, Ohio, and another in Union Township, N.J., both of which stand to lose their subsidies if they do not meet federal integration requirements. At present, HEW has 63 investigators in the South and only 40 in the rest of the country. By mid-January, the number outside...
...candidate, will become secretary to the Cabinet. Harry Flemming, 28, who was Nixon-Agnew co-chairman in Virginia and is now helping to recruit sub-Cabinet officials, will become a special assistant for personnel and liaison man to the Civil Service Commission. Flemming owns four weekly newspapers in Northern Virginia and is vice president of a Washington electronics company. His father, Arthur Flemming, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Dwight Eisenhower...
...from the station to get on. Towards the end of the trip, as your back begins to stick to the disintegrating leather of the old upright seats, the sunrise lights up the outskirts of the miserable border town of Nuevo Laredo, sweltering colorlessly in the semi-desert of Northern Mexico...
...best-documented mutation occurred in 1957, when a new and savage strain poured out of northern China and won deserved ill repute as "Asian A2." Whenever a virus mutates, pharmaceutical manufacturers have to in corporate the new strain into their vaccines because antibodies and therefore immunity against older strains are not as effective in combatting the successive mutants. That takes many months at best, and the makers lost the race to the virus in the winter...
...mile "Farewell Tour" of the U.S., Lady Bird Johnson strolled through the cathedral-like majesty of the redwood country of northern California. Pausing at the base of a 657-year-old giant, she placed a plaque designating the 27,000-acre Redwood National Park, a project that has pitted the Government and conservationists against private lumber concerns that have been felling great swatches of the dwindling redwood stands. "This is the crowning moment of a crusade that has lasted two generations," she said. "It would be a tragedy if tomorrow's tourists find a repetition of yesterday...