Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...talks occupies a full third of the book, and Benjamin Read, chief assistant to Dean Rusk and one of the few people in government who has access to the full story, has assured one faculty member here that the account of this incident from late in 1966 is "90 per cent" accurate...
...Turning over present Harvard housing to the community would only force more students and faculty to live off-campus and would thus increase housing shortages in the City. (A resolution had asked Harvard and M.I.T. to turn over 25 per cent of their housing to the Leased Housing Program--a project to provide low-rent housing to senior citizens...
Black schools in Alabama and Mississippi, without exception, are ramshackle, decaying, understaffed and overcrowded. Alabama spends about $1500 per year for each white student in school. That's not much, but it's more than twice as much as the state pays for black students. Things are worse in Mississippi, where two years ago the state board of education coughed up a little less than $250 to pay for the education of each black student in the black schools...
News of the 72 per cent reduction in the international student exchange program, which broke yesterday in the New York Times, did not come as a shock to Fox, however, who cited the growing opposition in Congress to such projects...
Working from statistics that showed that 97 per cent of Alabama's black children had "chosen" to stay in black schools, and quoting a Supreme Court ruling that invalidated Freedom of Choice when it didn't "speedily end the dual school system," the Justice Department asked for more radical measures. Specifically, it wanted the court to close many black schools and begin bussing and zoning plans to achieve racial balance in the schools. And it wanted all of this done before the 1968 school year opened...