Word: roth
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...North has remained largely untouched. The reason is that segregation was created by law in the South, whereas it was supposed to have resulted from circumstances in the North. This comforting distinction has now been challenged by a federal court ruling in Detroit. U.S. District Court Judge Stephen J. Roth declared that what appears to be de facto segregation in the Detroit school system is actually de jure and must be abolished...
...decision on a complaint filed by the N.A.A.C.P. and a group of parents, Roth acknowledged that the vast Negro migration northward, as well as economic factors, was responsible for blacks settling in Detroit's ghettos. He also recognized that many blacks chose to live apart. Even so, whites over the years have steadily erected barriers to integration; monochromatic neighborhood schools were not just an accident. "Governmental actions and inaction at all levels-federal, state and local-have combined with those of private organizations, such as loaning institutions and real es tate associations and brokerage firms, to establish and maintain...
...Evil Without Fault. Segregation has not only been maintained in Detroit, Roth went on to say; it has been actively pursued. The city has bused Negro children to predominantly black schools, but it has not bused whites to black schools. By continuing to build schools in the ghetto, it has reinforced segregation. By establishing so-called "optional" schools in mixed neighborhoods, it has encouraged whites to escape integration. While the state government has provided funds for the transportation of pupils in the suburbs, until recently it has offered no aid for busing in the city. In addition, its formula...
...Evanston, Ill., plans to vote for Nixon again, but he recently objected that "glowing statements from Washington are at variance with what people are experiencing. There is too much hard sell. It's eroding the Administration's credibility. People are looking for real answers." Republican Senator William Roth of Delaware recently conducted a poll among his constituents and found that over half of the 20,000 who responded would accept wage and price controls. Said he: "I think people are ready for stern measures...
...bits gleam. Hoffman's sluggish nasal metabolism is still amusing if familiar; Barbara Harris has a few moving moments as an auditioning singer with only three good notes; and the late David Burns is the archetypal Jewish father who seems to have sired every writer from Philip Roth to Erich Segal. But that troupe would be funny reading subway signs. Maybe more...