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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...background of the situation has become unpleasantly familiar to New Yorkers. The city's board of education last year set up a pilot project in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section to test school decentralization, which would allow "the community"-the parents themselves and the neighborhood leaders-to run the schools. Only that way, supporters of the scheme claim, will ghetto children get sympathetic teachers with a more flexible approach to their special needs. Most professional, unionized teachers deeply distrust the idea. And when the Ocean Hill-Brownsville governing committee asked for the transfer of 13 teachers that it considered...
...convict lecturers are from the maximum-security section of the penitentiary, and a few are bank rob bers and murderers. Yet nobody has tried to escape so far. The men realize that one escape would doom the whole program, and they themselves choose the five four-man teams who go - with the approval of prison authorities. So far, the teams have traveled a total of more than 200,000 miles across the state and have spoken to some 750,000 Coloradans. Their message usually goes like this: "I'm on the road to nowhere...
Lucy Manzi, assistant librarian and head of the reserve section, said yesterday that many more books than the 300 stolen last year were missing during reading and exam periods...
Workmen are constructing a three-foot indoor fence around the reserve section which will force students who wish to use reserve books to get them from a member of the library staff...
Members of the University have previously been able to use books inside the library without signing them out. Under the new system, which will be like the one now used in Lamont, only library staff members will be able to enter the reserve section, and all books will be signed...