Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...want to start all over." He succeeded at least in providing the closest thing to a two-party state that the South has today. Now he must make it work in Tallahassee...
...court ruled 8-4 that beginning next fall local school authorities must start desegregating all classes from kindergarten through the 12th grade. "Boards and officials administering public schools in this circuit," it said, "have the affirmative duty under the 14th Amendment to bring about an integrated, unitary school system in which there are no Negro schools and no white schools-just schools...
...Kennedy intervention-but some could have made quite a difference. Besides, it is impossible to say just how much Manchester's first-draft characterization may have been softened by Harper's editors even before the Kennedys entered the dispute. At one point, Manchester had intended to start the book with an episode in which he contrasts L.B.J.'s love of hunting to J.F.K.'s "haunting" recollection of shooting a deer on L.B.J.'s ranch in 1960. The incident, which makes Johnson seem a heartless killer while Kennedy gets "an inner scar" from shooting a deer...
...plan, dubbed "pass-fail" because of its similarity to the HPC request that students' worst grades not be counted, is based on the following provision: each intercollegiate athletic team can designate, at the start of the season, one game that will not count on its final record, unless the team doesn't give a regular all-out effort...
Like a Barony. Mr. Mac is a man of continuing contradictions. From the start of his highly organized career he has concentrated his genius for aerospace production on a comparatively few products. But next month, by merging his company with Douglas Aircraft, he will become boss of one of the nation's most impressively diversified aerospace manufacturers. In an era of bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes...