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...forward Otto Schwartz gave the spectators a visual synopsis of the whole contest at the 10-minute mark when, looking at an open net following a corner kick, he spun the wet ball way over the net from close range. It was going to be that kind...
...among those forced to retire, and 25% of all known suicides are committed by people over 65. Beyond that, years of substantial inflation have eroded their pensions and kept many of them from enjoying the often illusory, but highly touted leisure pursuits of their allegedly golden years. Says Joseph Schwartz, who retired after 27 years as a Chicago schoolteacher, then retired once again as a park supervisor and is looking for a job now: "Above all, you must work...
...schools have furnished a traditional haven for white, middle class residents and METCO, a program that voluntarily buses minority students to suburban schools, remains an option for thousands of blacks. Also, Boston, as might be expected of any predominantly Catholic city, has a significant parochial school system. Robert B. Schwartz '59. Mayor Kevin H. White's education expert, estimates that one-third of all white school-age children in Boston attend parochial schools. Nonwhites comprise only 20 per cent of the city's population, yet they make up almost 50 per cent of the public school enrollment...
...school's administration and budget, but considering his past behavior and the potential for patronage involved, it makes as much sense as giving Nixon a third term. In all fairness to White, he has run the city better than the school committee has run the schools. Also, Schwartz says White has all the patronage he needs. White failed by never providing the city with moral leadership. As David Smith said. "We got to 1974 with segregated schools and no public official saying it was wrong." White never risked his political standing to confront the Kerrigans and Hicks' head-on over...
...Schwartz believes "the precedent to educational reform in the city of Boston is political reform." But even with an unresponsive school committee unlikely to improve in this November's election, gradual change has begun. Garrity's comprehensive court order, which some feel did not go far enough, forced desegregation, affirmative action and educational innovations onto a resisting system. In the short run it has produced violence and a significant enrollment drop but it has brought the system's mediocrity to the forefront of people's minds. It will take years to change the system but at least now, there...