Word: race
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atmosphere of crisis is having strange effects on local politics. Some campaigns have become polarized conflicts between those who advocate tough anticrime measures and exploit fears of blacks, and those who take a more conciliatory, reformist position. But in most cities, race and crime are turning out to be volatile and unpredictable issues...
DETROIT MODERATION Mayor Jerome considered a boy wonder when elected eight years ago, has had enough. "It is misleading, even dangerous, to suppose that a mayor can control the destiny of his city," he says. The nonpartisan race to replace him is not the clear-cut case of black v. white that many outsiders assume. Wayne County Sheriff Roman S. Gribbs, 43, is a moderate who has thoroughly integrated his department, appointed a top Negro deputy, eliminated brutality in a sorry county jail, and avoided simplistic solutions to crime problems. His opponent, County Auditor Richard H. Austin...
Another focus of the center will be the racial and class consequences of "tracking," grouping students early in their education. A pamphlet put out by the Center states that "there is some preliminary evidence that tracking, ability grouping, and even grading are strongly related to differences in race and social class." The legal implications of this are under consideration, Kirp said...
Cornell must win this game to stay in the Ivy League race, and Yale cannot really afford to lose any of its early games since its schedule becomes much more difficult later in the season...
...Center's people are diverse, the works it has supported are even more 50. One can try to draw some conclusions about the Center from Strike a Blow and Die: A Narrative of Race Relations in Colonial Africa, but they would be different occlusions than one would draw from Counter-Insurgency Warfare. Neither of them reflects the spirit of the Center, of course, because the Center has no common spirit. Or if the Center does have one, it comes closer to being captured in Sam Bowles' "The Aggregation of Labor Inputs in the Study of Growth and Planning: Experiments with...