Word: south
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school doors swing open throughout most of the nation this week, the South and its 50 million people face a year of enormous significance. 1969 is the most crucial year for school integration since the Supreme Court 15 years ago ordered that the system of dual schools for whites and blacks be dismantled. In 1968-69, only 20% of the Negro children in the South attended integrated schools; this fall, the percentage will nearly double. Moreover, the Government also inherited from the Johnson Administration plans to press -and press hard-upon those Southern education districts that had not yet begun...
...Nixon Administration's caution has tended 'to blur the guidelines for school desegregation, casting doubt on the inevitability-or at least the near-term certainty-of enforced integration in the South. The result is a loss in valuable psychological momentum. For local Southern officials, the pressure to integrate can be cruel, and the most effective argument they can make to their constituents is that integration is inevitable under the law. If Washington's course is ambivalent, if school districts that have held out the longest against the law are now granted still more delays, then the position...
Skolnick lives in his parents' modest duplex home on Chicago's South Side, supported mainly by his father's union pension and social security benefits. He can move his wheelchair, but only with difficulty, and must be chauffeured to his press conferences and court appearances. Working with him are 30 or so volunteers whom Skolnick has organized into the Committee to Clean Up the Courts. Like him, most of them have grievances against the courts. Each week, they pore over stock records, title transfers and other documents for evidence of judicial mischief. The eyes and ears...
...Faith was less a conscious decision than a drifting together of old friends who liked to play together in off hours. After Cream and Traffic broke up, Clapton and Winwood began a series of two-man sessions, alternating between Clapton's $100,000 house in the Surrey hills south of London and Winwood's whitewashed, $5-a-week farm cottage on the Berkshire downs. Baker, who had known Clapton since they worked together in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, "just showed up" one day and started sitting in. With the addition of Grech, they had a fourth member...
Died. Dr. Philip Blaiberg, 60, the South African dentist who survived for a record 594 days with a transplanted heart (see MEDICINE...