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Word: racial (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will apparently be withheld until Boston comes up with a satisfactory plan to comply with the State Racial Imbalance Law. The School Committee's intransigence in racial matters has also delayed the building of a new English High School for over three years; the only available site has been in Roxbury. The Committee has yet to spend a cent of the $29 million bond issue, floated in 1963, for fear of disturbing the racial status...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collins Goes to School | 3/18/1966 | See Source »

...imagination that has been touched by the best in two worlds. Sylvia Ashton-Warner does other things easily that most current writers would not attempt to contrive. Huia watches a fight between a brown-skin Maori and a white boy. They are not fighting for status, or out of racial bitterness. The boys are fighting over something real-her, a princess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Genuine Magic | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

...almost every ill to which the industrial society has fallen heir: unemployment, disease, crime, drug addiction, poor education, family disintegration-and slums. The middle class, the bulwark of good government in any community, continues as a result to migrate to the suburbs, helping to create the problem of proliferating racial ghettos. Almost every major U.S. city must fight advancing physical decay and increasing squalor, particularly for Negro populations, which within 15 years may outnumber whites in at least half of the North's big cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cities: Hope for the Heart | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

Unabashed Boosterism. Many Southern papers now cover local racial news with considerable accuracy and balance. The Jackson papers, which were founded in the 1800s, have not changed their attitude in half a century. Bob Hederman, who publishes both papers, and his cousin Tom Hederman, who edits the Clarion-Ledger, are descendants of the powerful Jackson family thai bought the Clarion-Ledger in 1920, took over the Daily News in 1954, and has always quickly crunched any competition. The Hedermans also own the Hattiesburg (Miss.) American, a sizable chunk of local real estate and an interest in TV and radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Dixie Flamethrowers | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...bottom." To Economics Professor Jacques Dreze, a member of a ten-man commission set up by the university two months ago to study the issue, the future of Louvain depends on the political future of Belgium, and he is gloomy on grounds that the aspirations of cultural or racial communities are generally irreversible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education Abroad: They're Not Talking | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

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