Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ocean of Confusion. Despite all of the pressures toward compliance, the committees' task is a tough one. Out of the 2,697 school districts in eleven Southern states, 635 were still operating dual systems last spring. Almost half (311) of these have voluntarily agreed to desegregate this year. Many of the rest are especially difficult areas in which blacks constitute a majority and few whites want any part of putting their children in black-dominated schools. Federal officials are uncertain what form the white resistance may take: school boycotts, a further flight to the all-white private academies...
TIME'S Atlanta Bureau Chief Joseph Kane sees no sign of serious new tensions across the South as the school opening approaches. But he detects "an ocean of confusion that can breed sporadic violence" in districts where desegregation plans have not yet been detailed, parents do not know what schools their children will be attending, and there are last-minute plans involving long bus rides or predominantly black classrooms that could "radicalize"' whites. There is also a mood of increased militancy among young blacks, who are less likely than before to accept meekly any unfair treatment in their...
...trains' destination was the Military Ocean Terminal at Sunny Point, N.C., a sprawling, 8,500-acre depot that exists only to process ammunition. Each year 1.3 million tons of munitions pass through the base. So careful are the procedures that since 1955, when the base was completed, not a single man working there has lost his life...
...obsolete Liberty Ship loaded with nerve gas will sink to the bottom of the ocean off the Bahamas today. And one of the many monuments to former Radcliffe President LeBaron Russell Briggs will disappear forever...
...Washingtonians intent on a sunny weekend at Chesapeake Bay or the ocean beyond, the clogged approaches to Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Bridge regularly add two or three hours to the Saturday morning journey. When traffic halts, motorists unlimber lunch baskets, folding chairs and martini shakers, and the picnic begins. Kids flip Frisbees while their elders chat. Those dreaded approaches may be the world's longest, narrowest picnic grounds...