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...integrate the entire system. In addition, the Appeals Court in Detroit, Michigan recently upheld federal court Judge Roth's decision to bus children between Detroit and 53 suburban cities and town. The decision was in direct conflict with a ruling in another appeals court which reversed a city-suburb plan for Richmond, Va. The Supreme Court will take up the issue in the near future...
...came his first time at bat for the Pirates in 1955. It should have come a season earlier, but Clemente was the unwitting victim of a hide-and-seek game played by the old Brooklyn Dodgers. Son of a sugar-plantation foreman in Carolina, a suburb of San Juan, Roberto was spotted by Dodger scouts when he was 19 and quickly signed for a $10,000 bonus to keep him out of the clutches of their archrivals, the New York Giants. Well aware of his potential, the Dodgers sent Clemente to their Montreal farm team where, by using him sparingly...
...began last Oct. 13 when the F-27 turboprop, manned by a crew of five, took off from Montevideo for Santiago, Chile, normally a 2½-hr, flight. Aboard were 16 members of the Old Christians, a rugby team composed of socially prominent college boys from the prosperous Montevideo suburb of Carrasco. Along with 24 friends and relatives, they were making a trip to Chile for a series of matches. Because of bad weather in the mountains, the plane was forced to stop at Mendoza, Argentina. The players used the layover to stock up on chocolate for their Chilean hosts...
...villa near the Paris suburb of Gif-sur-Yvette, Kissinger and North Viet Nam's Le Duc Tho quickly arrived at the draft of a nine-point agreement. It was not yet a full accord; some vital details were yet to be filled in. But it constituted a major breakthrough. The plan separated the purely military issues from the political ones; it provided for an in-place cease-fire that would end the major fighting immediately, a U.S. withdrawal and the return of the American prisoners of war within 60 days, and for the establishment of a purposefully vague...
Harshaw soon received congratulatory letters from small-town mayors in Texas and Tennessee. In the Kansas City, Kans., suburb of Westwood (pop. 2,300), Mayor Joe Dennis bounced back a check for $37,000 Westwood, he said, did not need the money. Then Mayor Jack Cauble of Coahoma, Texas (pop. 1,200) rejected, with city council approval, a check for $1,889. His action was rooted in prairie suspicion. "I would have sent it back even if it were $18,000," he insisted. "When I was a kid my mother used to send me out for a switch and then...