Word: plante
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nice Plant. The haste in which most segregation academies are conceived and born hardly helps. Typical is the new Sandy Run Academy in Swansea, S.C., a rural town whose population of 1,800 is 40% black. Until a year ago, Swansea had escaped all but token integration. But when the school board finally bowed to federal court orders to integrate Grades 10, 11 and 12, Swansea parents boycotted the public school. When the boycott petered out after two weeks, its instigators rushed ahead with plans to start a private high school...
...five acres of land outside town. Twenty others put up $2,000 each to buy materials. Townspeople donated their labor. Construction began last May, and just 31 months later Sandy Run Academy's attractive, one-story brick building was finished. The school is what educators call "a nice plant": its seven classrooms are clean, well lighted and centrally air-conditioned. It also has a number of shortcomings. In a community that sends only 30% of its students to college, Sandy Run offers a rudimentary college-preparatory program (English, history, science, mathematics, French), but no vocational training. There...
...that the quality of the U.S. environment is becoming an increasingly important concern of the nation's electorate. Wherever the environment issue cropped up, the result was the same. Voters within the Mojave Water District of California's San Bernardino County refused a proposed coal-burning power plant despite the increased taxes it would have contributed to the district. Reason: the plant might pollute the clear desert air. At Mercer Island in Lake Washington, a suburb of Seattle, residents faced another difficult choice. Did they want to preserve a wooded park? Or did they want to bulldoze...
Your article, "YPSL, Strikers Join in G.E. Plant Picket," (Nov. 5). contained several inaccuracies, including the following...
...played an important role in Israel's small but determined foreign-aid program. Such activities may expand when Dr. Albert Sabin, the developer of oral polio vaccine, takes over as president next January. Israel, he told a 25th anniversary banquet in New York last month, is "a pilot plant for the hundreds of millions of people living in ever greater poverty and misery" around the world...