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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must compete for their share of revenue with life-and-death municipal services like police and fire departments. "The property tax is a killer," says Edward Chenevert, library director in Portland, Me. Complains Dale Perkins, 46, library director for California's San Luis Obispo County: "We are just one sixty-fifth of the county budget-right in there with mosquito abatement...
Just how ardently librarians should press to evolve into all-purpose community information centers was a hot topic last week in Washington among the 911 national delegates at the first White House Conference on Library and Information Services. One vision of the future was on display at the conference's own information center: a battery of computers with which delegates could summon up printouts on a bewildering array of information from more than 100 data banks. Among them: the Denver library's information bank, which stores pollution and land-use data; the U.S. Senate's information pool...
Meanwhile, across the continent, a judge has just given a boost to one group of testing reformers. In San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge Robert F. Peckham last month ruled that California could not use the common Stanford-Binet IQ test to screen pupils for placement in a special program for the "educable mentally retarded." California's EMR program is 25% black, although blacks make up only 10% of the statewide school population. Even under the improbable assumption that black children have 50% more mental retardation than white children, said Peckham, the EMR enrollment pattern had just one chance...
...1830s parliamentary idealists in London decreed an end to slavery in the Empire, and some of the Afrikaners, dependent on their slaves, trekked into the wilderness to the north. The leaders of these trekboers (wandering farmers) founded two independent republics, the Transvaal and the Orange Free State. No one but the native blacks would have cared had not a rich diamond pipe been found at Kimberley in the Orange Free State and an immense stratum of gold at Witwatersrand ("the Rand") in the Transvaal. As largely British "Outlanders" poured into the Rand to mine the gold, Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes...
There were a few initial victories, but the mounted, mobile Boers with their magazine-loading Mausers and their devastating "Long Tom" artillery soon drove the British forces into siege positions at Ladysmith, Kimberley and Mafeking. The lessons of preparedness were not lost on one of the Boers' early captives: young War Correspondent Winston Churchill...