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Boston's record of de facto school segregation is as bad as any in the nation, and President Nixon's call for a moratorium on new busing will undoubtedly strengthen the resistance. Boston's school committee has used several means to avoid integration. One of its favorites was the rule of "open enrollment," which theoretically (but only theoretically) permitted any student to transfer to any school that had an empty seat. But the main tactic, and the main rallying cry of the school committee's then-Chairman Louise Day Hicks, was to argue that the "neighborhood...
...attempt to strengthen the attack, Munro has moved junior John Hagerty from midfield up front. Hagerty, the second leading scorer last year, will play with Steve Milliken, Steve Leahy, and sophomore Grant Geiger, who was top freshman scorer last year...
While sprinters require ability and only a minimal amount of work, the long distance man must train long hours to strengthen heart and lungs and build endurance. According to Gambril the distance man must work from four to eight years for 10 or 11 months a year to reach peak endurance. He must swim between 1200 and 1500 miles a year, or about 35-50 miles a week...
...form holds up, Harvard should come away with another victory, its fifth in a row over Yale, and strengthen its hold on third place in the ECAC standings. Equally important to the Crimson, however, is the match between Princeton and Cornell at Baker Rink. If the Tigers can pull an upset (unlikely, since captain Art Schmon quit the squad Monday and defenseman Brian MacIntosh is benched for fighting last Wednesday), Harvard is assured of a tie for the Ivy title, provided it wins its last two games...
...recent past, the French, Bao Dai, Diem, each in different ways, attempted to perpetuate centralized authority, and in every case they weakened it. To strengthen political authority, it is instead necessary to decentralize it, to extend the scope of the political system and to incorporate more effectively into it the large number of groups which have become politically organized and politically conscious in recent years. Such a system might be labeled federal, confederal, pluralistic, decentralized--but, whatever the label, it would reflect the varied sources of political power. In the recognition of and acceptance of that diversity lies the hope...