Word: oceans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attendance at the wedding of Luci Johnson." But: "Nor were there Real Society people at the wedding of Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier of Monaco. ('I hear that they met,' said a Philadelphia Society woman at the time, 'at the home of a mutual friend in Ocean City, New Jersey. But how can that be? No one has gone to Ocean City for years...
Quarrels Over Responsibility. With the approval of the city's board of education and the help of a $59,000 planning grant from the Ford Foundation, the Ocean Hill-Brownsville experiment was set up last summer. Local parents elected a committee to run the eight schools in the project and were given power to select principals, allocate funds, and set educational goals and standards. The city board of education supposedly retained only the supervisory authority, but from the start, there were quarrels over divisions of responsibility. School-board officers feared that the committee had been taken over by Black...
...Meanwhile, the state legislature was having some second thoughts about decentralization. The state senate in Albany rejected the mayor's original proposal and began to consider a number of compromise plans that would bring neighborhood control of the schools on a gradual basis. In the wake of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville protests, the United Federation of Teachers entered the fray, led by its aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization...
...airports and harbors, built for waging war but equally suitable for handling peacetime traffic. In Thailand, U.S.-built military roads can be used-indeed already are being used -to get native farm products to market. Similarly, says John K. Wilhelm, an American AID official in Saigon, the heavy ocean-cargo volume generated by the war "might simply be transferred to civilian shipping" once hostilities cease...
...Great Snake," as the natives call the $45 million project, will be completed in June. Stretching 1,058 miles across mountains and marshes, through thick jungle and dusty scrubland, the line will carry gasoline, kerosene and diesel oil from the port of Dar es Salaam on the Indian Ocean to the copper belt of landlocked Zambia. It will stand as one more monument to the widely varied skills of San Francisco's Bechtel Corp., the largest engineering and construction firm in the world...