Word: racial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...billion demonstration-cities bill opened the way-at last-for reconstruction of rotting city cores. The plan sets up a partnership between federal and municipal governments that aims to coordinate all phases of human and physical rehabilitation, from job-training programs to the dissolution of racial ghettos...
...Loaves & Fishes." Such tactics have inhibited High. "The issue is still integrity," he says, but Kirk, unlike Burns, provides no target for this shaft. With the President's popularity sagging and racial tension a constant undercurrent, High has found it prudent to skirt national issues and play down his own progressive record on civil rights and legislative reapportionment. On the crime issue, the Bade County government, rather than the Miami mayor's office, has the primary responsibility for law enforcement; yet even to make this point would only underscore the ceremonial nature of his present...
...Purple." They spent their time on stage making bad jokes about his virility and displaying her eroticism to the worst advantage. Gaylord and Holliday, a comedy team, did a wonderful parody of Sonny and Cher's "Bang-Bang" but the rest of the time contented themselves with reciting embarrassing racial jokes...
...committee's method--like its thinking on so many aspects of the racial question--was serenely simple. Massachusetts under the state school desegregation law, determines racial imbalance by the percentage of non-whites in a school. The School Committee has now decided to count 671 Chinese students as white. So by the committee's figures, there are 36 imbalanced schools in the city, although state officials, using the now presumably outdated definitions of the U.S. Census Bureau, persist in counting...
Since the School Committee has now seized the initiative in solving the problem of racial imbalance, it is something of a puzzle why the group didn't throw gradualism to the winds and go all the way. The committee members could, after all, have said that Negroes are whites, and ended racial imbalance in Boston altogether...