Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even George Wallace's best friends tried to persuade him last week that the Lurleen gambit would backfire. Lurleen is Wallace's wife, and the Governor's latest scheme to beat the state constitution's provision that he cannot succeed himself is to run Lurleen instead. "If sanity overcomes, and Wallace leaves Mrs. Wallace free to be a mother and a housekeeper," counseled the Montgomery Advertiser, Wallace's most faithful journalistic supporter, George could take a profitable sabbatical from public office and return to power later...
...scheme is to collect enough S. & H. Green Stamps to make a hefty down payment on a private plane for Jones. Heading the stamp drive is Jones's wife, Syble, high priestess of the Klan's women's auxiliary in nearby Salisbury. At Klan klatsches, Syble reminds the white-robed sisters that hub by and his Klan kohorts could do much more for the cause if they had wings-and then asks the ladies to hand over their stamp books...
Joseph Lee allowed himself to be identified with Mrs. Hicks, despite his August vote in favor of busing. Lee has always been fairly outspoken in his opposition to the principle of racial balancing, but he has his own scheme for satisfying the state requirements. Dubbed "scatteration," the plan calls for shipping Negro children to suburban schools, where Boston would pay their tuition. Theoretically this would halt the exodus of white Boston residents to the lily-white suburbs...
...General Education program originally superseded a distribution scheme dictated by just this kind of logic. The Faculty apparently felt then that a Harvard education should impart more than a specialist's insights, that a student should be asked to step back from departmental studies and examine a broad area of knowledge from an interdepartmental viewpoint. Much of the Redbook philosophy has since been called into question, but the value of good General Education courses seems as great today as it did then. The Faculty reaffirmed the Gen Ed requirement by a two-on-one vote last spring and we hope...
...colonies, too badly outnumbered to maintain control, began calling for help. In British eyes, the only solution was to weld them into a federation with Southern Rhodesia, whose large white police force and greater degree of self-government might quell the cries for kwacha, or independence. It was a scheme worthy of Rhodes, but not even federation could stem the tide. It lasted exactly ten years...