Word: suburbanity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Federal District Judge Stephen D. Roth (who died three weeks ago at the age of 66) approved of that goal, but went even further; he ordered the busing of thousands of Detroit's black students to classes in 53 school systems outside city limits, including such upper-class suburban enclaves as Bloomfield Hills, Grosse Pointe and Birmingham. An appeals court upheld much of the plan, and last fall the state and two threatened suburban school districts appealed the ruling to the Supreme Court...
...Should suburban residents be drawn into the struggles of big cities to achieve racial balance in their schools? Last week the Supreme Court answered that emotional question in the negative. In a far-reaching and bitterly fought decision that came a day after the Watergate-tapes opinion, the court voted 5 to 4 against a plan to desegregate Detroit's primarily black school system by merging it with the mostly white systems of three surrounding counties...
...unanimity began to crack with split votes in 1972 on attempts to re-juggle school-district boundaries. The first hint that the balance might decisively tip came last year. By a 4-to-4 vote, the court rejected an appeals court's plan to join Richmond with two suburban school systems for purposes of desegregation; because the vote was a tie, it established no clear precedent...
Aside from Detroit, the city most immediately affected by the ruling is probably Louisville, where a federal judge last week ordered city and suburban school districts merged to facilitate desegregation; an appeals court may well use the Detroit case as grounds to overturn the order. Cross-district busing cases are also being pressed in Indianapolis, Atlanta, Wilmington, Del., Hartford, Conn., and a number of other cities. School officials in those communities will now have to look inside their districts for solutions to racial imbalance...
...just a bit suburban. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young are themselves all prosperous adults, owners of mansions and 800-acre ranches. The rhythm of their lives, private and professional, has settled down to moderato. Loud fracases and nocturnal revelries no longer conclude their day's work. Groupies, once omnipresent, are rare. After a recent Oakland concert, Stills, on his way to an informal jam with some members of the Grateful Dead, was accosted by one persistent young lady. To turn her off, he launched into a monologue on the virtues of family living. "Can I stay with you tonight...