Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...losing money under specific-program grants and the time some of the funds are returned under special revenue sharing. Also, the mayors knew pretty much what they would get under the grant programs, many of which were targeted at cities. Under special revenue sharing, they will have to fight suburban, small-town and state governments for the money. Indeed, with the pipeline to the Treasury being shut off for many programs, special revenue sharing could cause city and countryside to resume the acrimonious struggle for federal money that bedeviled U.S. society from the Civil War to the New Deal...
...provide dresses of the Revolutionary period for the hostesses at candlelight dinners at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Then somebody came up with the idea of a marching band with a symbolic number of players -1,976. So every high school in suburban Virginia's Fairfax County produced young musicians to form a band that stretched for two blocks...
MEANWHILE, the School Committee and State Board are codefendants in a case to begin in the Federal court on January 22. The case offers the possibility of the integrating of Boston city schools with suburban schools. Black parents have charged the School Committee and State Board with failing to provide equal educational opportunities for black children, in violation of the 14th Amendment. Specific accusations include racial discrimination in the assignment recruitment and promotion of teachers, unequal spending in the schools, and the incorporation of segregated neighborhoods in school attendance zones. The plaintiffs have indicated that if they win, they will...
...Supreme Court. The Court is expected to rule soon on the Denver Case, in which the city was ordered to 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...
UNDERLYING MOST of the other ills in American society today is the disillusionment with middle-class life. For the first time along this country industrialized, a significant minority of people in the United States, particularly among the young, is disenchanted with the prospect of new cars and suburban houses, coupled with full-time office or factory "careers" in a metropolitan area. The evidence for this is all around, Witness, for example, the signs of widespread discontent among younger factory workers at Lordstown, Ohio and chew here...