Word: segments
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with the coming of spring, McCurdy has renewed hopes for the final segment of his three-season year, the outdoor track season...
...three-page segment is dated November 1974, but the references go back to 1971. Harvard changed its personnel structure in 1972, bringing the Medical Area office under John B. Butler's main office in Cambridge...
...these uncertain times it seems a waste of people power to deny any segment of society, by reason of race, sex, national origin, religious preference, or age, a channel of learning that does not depend on academic or economic performance or on familiar ties. Many of us pursuing later dreams need just as much encouragement and new experience as our juniors, and are often more open to new perspectives from unrelated younger friends than from our own recently-sprung progeny...
...Education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, expansive, flamboyant Dwight Allen, 44, worked miracles (TIME, Dec. 21, 1970). Demonstrating a genius for fund raising, he brought in a total of $15 million in federal and foundation grants. With a flair for innovation, he transformed the small, conservative segment of the state university into a flourishing but controversial school that concentrated on urban education and minority problems and encouraged a "do your own thing" attitude among students and faculty. Wearing colorful custom-tailored African shirts, he toured the country, making as many as 400 speeches a year, preaching the free...
...nine years, and a court order, for that act to be implemented in Boston's school system. Now Boston has Phase One, the school desergregation plan implemented by Federal Judge W. Arthur Garrity. While national attention focuses on Boston's busing problems, local politicians court its vocal anti-busing segment and the Boston School Committee sees itself as the embattled defender of alienated rights...