Word: shut
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charlestown Navy Yard is filled with dirty old granite buildings. The Yard is shut down now, closed by the government in 1973. It's ghost town, silently rotting away on the banks of the Charles River. Some buildings, like the one next to the USS Constitution, have managed to escape anonymity simply by historical proximity. But most of the structures are like Building 36, lacking a history before the mid-1800's, serving for a brief time as a sail-making factory, and scarred by an ugly brick addition tacked on to meet World War Two supply demands...
Harrowing Warning. Faced with these harsh facts of political life, Jerry Ford still plans to carry on his work−and his election campaign for 1976−just as before. "You can't shut down the presidency," notes one White House aide. This week Ford will visit New Hampshire to campaign on behalf of Republican Senatorial Candidate Louis Wyman, and on Friday and Saturday he will fly off on another trip blending politics and presidential affairs, touring St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., and then ending in Dallas. His aides expect that, as always, Ford will be making...
...strikes. As buses began to roll, carrying black and white students across town to achieve integration, there was smouldering resentment in many communities and, in Louisville, outright violence. Boston, preparing to open its schools, feared the same. Millions of children could not even attend classes. Their schools were shut down in a growing wave of strikes by teachers angered by recession-caused layoffs, pay freezes and deteriorating working conditions. Following are accounts of the major conflicts...
...demonstrators parked their cars on the narrow two-way street leading to the school, preventing the eight buses filled with black students from leaving. The screaming crowd threw cups and empty soft-drink cans at the buses before police came to the rescue. A Ford Motor Co. truck plant shut down after 38% of the 1,500-man work force stayed out to show their opposition to busing...
...largest walkout came in Chicago, the nation's third largest school system, where 27,000 teachers shut down all of the city's 666 public schools preventing 530,000 pupils from attending classes. In Pennsylvania, strikes closed 25 of the state's 505 school districts, and teachers walked picket lines in one-third of Rhode Island's school districts. Schools were shut down in Berkeley, Calif., Wilmington, Del., and dozens of other cities. In hundreds of districts, teachers began the school year at work without contracts, awaiting the outcome of bargaining sessions that seemed hopelessly deadlocked...