Word: norths
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North Alabama are members of the "integrated neighborhoods." Their children attend public, racially integrated schools. Some are old. Some are ministers. 5000 people attended the first Klan rally held after Hines' arrest. At that time, an 80-year-old Baptist minister told a reporter, "God will have a special place for the Ku Klux Klan in heaven." A black Huntsville minister brought the clipping of the quote to his church the following Sunday morning. "The Ku Klux Klan will have a special place in hell! That's fool talk! There's nothing worse than an old fool...I'm going...
...Redstone Arsenal Army base--a major Army installation. The government took over the growth of the city and its surrounding vicinity. As a result, school desegregation met with few problems; integrated neighborhoods have always been common in both Huntsville and Decatur. Governor George C. Wallace stopped carrying North Alabama...
...THAT HE would ever confess to it. Duryea, as the Manhattan commentators smugly like to point out, is a "downstater," a suburban Republican totally unlike those wild men from up north who run around in animal skins and try to turn every election into a blood match against the five boroughs. Duryea, they want to think, symbolizes the Republican Party's new era--a shift away from the rural, anti-city sloganeering of past elections, a conscious effort to win the big urban voting blocs that for decades (Rockefeller excepted), have been under Democratic lock and key. For the first...
...pending court case that may invalidate the minority clause in the Student Assembly's constitution, which provides six extra assembly seats for representatives of minority groups, continues to complicate the question of official University recognition. A North Carolina appeals decision held that a similar minority clause in the constitution of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's student government was unconstitutional...
...battle to free up pension funds for social capital is just beginning. As a first volley, Rifkin and Barber's The North Will Rise Again makes a convincing case for alternative uses of pension capital. It also serves as a timely antidote to peter Drucker's 1976 apologia for the status quo, The Unseen Revolution: How Pension Fund Socialism came to America. Drucker's notion that "the United States is the first truly 'Socialist' country" is so much sheepdip. The fact that public and private pension funds "own" more than one-third of America's equity capital means nothing...