Word: richmond
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...federal funds for racial busing unless local school districts request the money-but it would not affect court orders requiring districts to bus. The amendment also delays the execution of any court order requiring the busing of children across school district lines, as in the controversial Richmond, Va., decision, until all legal appeals have been heard, or until July 1, 1973 -which is conveniently past the next election. Another provision would prevent any federal agency, but not the courts, from requiring the busing of any child into a school where his education would be considered inferior to that provided...
There are 101,000 students in Richmond and in the two adjoining counties; consolidation would add only 10,000 children to the 68,000 that are already being bused either for purposes of integration or basic transportation. But reaction to the order was quick and heated. Angry whites sneered that Judge Merhige sends his eleven-year-old son to a private school. One member of the Virginia House of Delegates called for the impeachment of Merhige as a "judicial pirate." Last week both the House of Delegates and the state senate passed overwhelmingly a resolution calling for a constitutional amendment...
...flight of whites to the suburbs, which intensified when busing first started in Richmond in 1970, is now spreading beyond Henrico and Chesterfield counties. Says one real estate salesman in semi-rural Hanover County: "I can no longer measure the market because I've sold everything under roof." The area's private schools, already numbering more than 40 with two more scheduled to open this fall, have expansion plans for handling the expected boom in enrollment. Roman Catholic Bishop John J. Russell, meanwhile, has let it be known that parents of prospective students for the area...
William Loving, the black owner of a local real estate firm, had a wry comment on the Richmond controversy: "First, blacks were not permitted to sit in the front of the bus. Then they moved to the front. Now they're driving...
Tobacco men are aglow with new optimism. Philip Morris, for example, increased U.S. cigarette sales last year by more than 11%, and is constructing an $80 million factory in Richmond, which it claims will be the world's largest assembler of cigarettes. In addition, the industry has made a notable saving on its advertising budget. Even though cigarette makers increased their nonbroadcast advertising by some $133 million in 1971, their total advertising expenditure declined by $78 million...