Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hard to see the effects of Separate-But-Unequal schools. About one-half of all the Negro children who start school end up graduating from high school. Actually, that's not as great a loss as it may seem; because those who make it out of the twelfth grade have only the equivalent of a sixth grade Alabama education. A little less than two-thirds of black high school graduates are able to read. Many are turned down by the military because they fail the elementary math and reading tests...
...State of Alabama's case was identical to the one it had made earlier when Freedom of Choice was introduced. If zoning and bussing start, Wallace protegee Gov. Albert Brewer said, whites will flee the shools, and the legislature will end the public school system...
Frenzied as the present season is, next year promises to be even wilder. The-state of Michigan, encouraged by its success with cohos, stocked its streams with 800,000 Chinook, or king, salmon fingerlings last year. Next fall the Chinooks, which weigh up to 60 Ibs., will start running. Fishermen can hardly wait...
...very like it, has been done often enough before, from H. G. Wells' time machines to Stanley Kubrick's space odyssey. Moreover, Frayn's first sentence-"Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber"-gets the whole thing off to a bad start. Sure enough, Uncumber has a mother called Frideswide and a father called Aelfric. The coyly chosen names and the uneasy use of the future tense suggest a particularly tiresome and traditionally British kind of whimsy...
...pound Pete Varney, who was last year's top freshman rusher, has moved to offensive end and has been impressive enough in pre-season work-outs to start against Holy Cross. Yovicsin also shifted Fritz Reed, a 235-pound junior, from end to offensive tackle...