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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...standards, 557 of its 2453 regular classrooms are overcrowded while 46 are significantly undercrowded--ten or more fewer than the specified 26-30 students. Fahey fired John Coakley, her well respected special assistant, but eventually rehired him when the pressures reached an unbearable level. University of Massachusetts Professor David Smith, a South End activist, said this week that Coakley's "honesty, ability and firing" were not unrelated...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...afford private education or flee to the suburbs, became Hirsehmann's captive dissenters who had no choice but to seek reform. During the '60s, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was the leading school reform organization in the city. But unfortunately, as Mary Ellen Smith, executive director of the community oriented City-Wide Educational Coalition (CWEC), said. "In the midst of the civil rights fights desegregation became integrally linked with reforms of the schools." Racism frustrated attempts to upgrade the education of black as well as white children. Arthur Gartland, a school committee incumbent, lost...

Author: By Mike Kendall, | Title: An Abandoned Ship | 9/24/1977 | See Source »

...American Bankers Association in Washington has been swamped with irate letters and phone calls from members. Their gripe: Bert Lance's flamboyant ways have given the business a black eye, and could subject it to far more intense Government scrutiny than now exists. Said ABA Spokesman Edward Smith: "The practices Lance is supposed to have followed cannot be considered normal or widespread. They just aren't tolerated in most banks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How Bankers View Bert | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...such abuses, Congressman St Germain would make it illegal for a banker to borrow from a correspondent bank under any circumstances. Bankers disagree vehemently on this point. Complained the ABA's Smith: "That may look good on the page of an economics textbook. But it would be disastrous for good, competitive banking. After all, bankers need full and speedy access to credit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: How Bankers View Bert | 9/19/1977 | See Source »

...Ontario $12,335,910 Dow Chemical $12,227,949 Aluminum Co. of America $11,865,565 Union Carbide $11,068,724 U.S. Steel $10,915,154 Kimberly-Clark $10,676,454 International Nickel of Canada $10,502,593 Procter & Gamble $10,376,375 Continental Group $9,939,553 Smith, Kline $8,946,86 Phillips Petroleum $8,918,217 Standard Oil of Indiana $8,913,351 Dome Petroleum $8,635,656 Gulf $8,538,075 Pennzoil $8,280,000 Kingdom of Norway $8,072,510 Bristol-Myers $7,493,988 Johnson and Johnson $7,474,908 Texaco $7,463,485 Federated...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Root of All Evil | 9/16/1977 | See Source »

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