Word: projections
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week, though, state legislators postponed any serious consideration of the plan for at least a year. And in the heavily Negro Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, a pilot project designed to test decentralization ran into serious trouble. The case suggested that, if ill-defined and badly administered, the cure might be as bad as the ailment...
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...
This month, Rhody McCoy, administrator of the project, attempted to transfer 13 teachers and six supervisors out of the schools. His only explanation for this action was that the educators had tried to "sabotage" the experiment and had "lost the confidence of the community." School Superintendent Bernard E. Donovan at once ordered them back to class. When they tried to return, angry parents blocked their way. Most of Brownsville's 9,000 students then boycotted classes, turning instead to makeshift "freedom schools" organized by parents' organizations...
...were trapped in a deepening ooze. But through most of the downpour, some 1,200 African tribesmen and Italian workers doggedly continued to lay down six miles of pipeline a day. If they manage to stick to their schedule, "the 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...
...teamster named Warren Bechtel hitched up a couple of mules and went into the "earthmoving" business in Oklahoma's Indian Territory. His knockabout enterprise prospered, and by the time of his death in 1933, "Dad" Bechtel was head of the combine building the Hoover Dam, the biggest construction project of its day. It was his son, Stephen Bechtel, who expanded the business into a worldwide engineering and construction organization that now employs some 8,500 technicians and engineers...