Word: school
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crowded are Cook County court dockets that the school-fire case will not come to trial for an estimated five years. But if it is decided in the plaintiffs' favor, it could have far-reaching results, facing Chicago and other cities with an endless procession of negligence damage suits after any fire, explosion or accident in an area where the city is charged with safety inspection...
...four lawsuits that led to the historic 1954 Supreme Court decision (Brown v. Board of Education) on school integration began in Southside Virginia's tobacco-raising Prince Edward County. Last week, to all intents and purposes, public education ended there. Finally facing a federal court's no-way-out order for token integration at September's school opening, the county board of supervisors refused to appropriate funds (budget: $780,000) to open the 21 schools and run them this year. Unless Negro plaintiffs can find a legal lever to force open school doors, Prince Edward...
...chronic drunk, who cried when his wife Pearlie and two-year-old son rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death at his birth...
...majesty of Louisiana law was District Judge Robert D. Jones, presiding over his court from a dais beneath the folded-up basketball backboard of the Covington (pop. 5,000), La. junior high school gymnasium. Around him, jamming available folding chairs and pressed back against the peeling green walls of the gym, were arrayed more than a thousand sweltering Louisianians-many of them leathery farmers in shirtsleeves, who had arrived before dawn (and had been sustained through the humid hours by soft drinks sold by the ladies of the P.T.A. for the benefit of the junior high encyclopedia fund). At precisely...
...Like the school bully putting the new boy in his place, Pancho Gonzales has used his bazooka drives and serves to humiliate every fair-haired lad who quit amateur tennis to take a crack at his professional title, which Pancho has held since 1954. Fairest-haired of all the challengers has been Aussie Lew Hoad, a blond muscleman with the forearm of a weight lifter, who challenged Gonzales in 1958 after conquering the amateur world. As usual, Gonzales treated the newcomer like an upstart kid, routed Hoad 51-36 on their first barnstorming tour of professional matches...