Word: redmonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chicago has worked harder to break the city's pattern of segregation than General Schools Superintendent James Redmond. He has appointed a black deputy superintendent, Manford Byrd Jr., whom he is grooming as his successor, and recently named a black district superintendent and a black principal to serve in nearly all-white areas. But most of Redmond's more ambitious plans have run into solid opposition from white parents and teachers alike. His attempts to promote pupil integration by bussing were beaten down by a coalition of militant Polish and Irish voters. Efforts to achieve greater faculty integration...
...Despite Redmond's patent good will, there seems to be no chance that the threatened lawsuit can be averted. Redmond is already faced with the prospect of cutting faculty strength by 7,000 teachers and reducing services because of the city's inability to meet the cost of a Daley-dictated contract. Now he must also contend with an obdurate union, whose president, John Desmond, has custom, state law and the public on his side and has vowed to defend the seniority system in court...
Black comedy has spawned black farce. Loot is a saucy, unremittingly funny play, spewing its deftly poisoned darts at freshly dead mothers, dutiful fathers (Liam Redmond), marriage, the Roman Catholic Church, police stupidity and police brutality. It suffers, as do all "nothing sacred" plays, from the suspicion that the playwright, the late Joe Orton, was shocking no one quite so much as himself...
...Musliner in foil and Paul Profeta in sabre each swept three bouts. Among Profeta's victims were Princeton captain Joe Padula, all-Ivy first team last year, and Steve Oxman, all-Ivy second team. Senior Dave Redmond also beat Padula...
...Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Wilde's delightful farce stars Patrick (The Avengers) Macnee, Susannah York, Pamela Brown, Ian Carmichael and William Redmond...