Word: starting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vote of 5 to 2, the board approved a bussing plan, due to start next fall, that would have sent more than 500 whites to predominantly black schools and guaranteed that no minority-area school would be less than 70% white. The plan was less than satisfactory to the Rev. Jesse R. Wagner, co-chairman of a black-white group called Citizens for One Community that wanted fuller integration. Still, he worked hard for the bussing scheme-in contrast to Denver's black separatists, who told Wagner, in effect: "Do your thing...
...lost the first round of the match, 7 sets to 3, repeatedly drove threadneedle shots into the grille and dropped unplayable lobs into the corners to go ahead in the final round 5-3. Needing only one set to win, Bostwick jumped out to an early lead at the start of the final day. During a volley for match point, he drilled a hard shot at the grille. Willis managed to get his racket on the ball, but his return soared out of bounds. Game, set, match and world championship to Bostwick. After a gentlemanly handshake, the new king...
Autos. Detroit is alarmed by Japanese auto exports to the U.S., which reached 110,000 cars last year. Instead of crying for quotas, U.S. auto men want to start producing in Japan, the only major non-Communist country that prohibits car manufacturing by foreigners. Under intense pressure by its trading partners, Japan has agreed to allow outsiders to buy up to a 50% interest in any of its auto firms-but not until 1972. By that time, the government hopes to have prodded Japan's twelve automakers into consolidating into two or three groups that would help them...
...Even more importantly, he had confidence in himself. Bob thought he could start, and once he did he was great...
...effect of "Well, if we're worth a billion dollars and we have the largset endowment of any private university in the country, why can't we spend a few puny millions to build . . ." a new athletic building for instance. That billion is capital (Bennett stressed), and once we start cutting into capital we're going to get busted...