Word: successful
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With the last of legal maneuvers exhausted in a seven-year battle against court-ordered school busing, officials in Columbus last week set about transporting some 35,000 pupils newly reassigned to different schools. The whole community mobilized to make the operation a great success. On the first day of school Mayor Tom Moody was able to announce: "We may not like what's happening, but we're going to work hard...
Most discussion centers on the great cities with large black populations where, experience so far suggests, busing's chances of success are slight. According to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the average black pupil in the North and West now attends schools more segregated than those in the South. After the U.S. Supreme Court gave yet another go-ahead to desegregation in Columbus last July, the U.S. Justice Department announced, without disclosing the targets, that it intends to investigate similar school districts elsewhere. As school opens this year, TIME examines four representative communities that, over the past eight...
...with Pontiac and San Francisco, court-ordered busing came to these neighboring cities on Florida's Gulf Coast in 1971. But despite a good deal of hot opposition at first, the Florida programs gamed acceptance and produced results. There were two main reasons for success. The busing plan in both cases was countywide - stretching beyond Tampa to include all the schools of Hillsborough County, and beyond St. Petersburg to all Pinellas County. That made white flight to schools beyond the district limits more difficult. Even more important, the population of both counties was not overly large, about...
...original conception. Her Peter is androgynous, part boy, part tomboy. As she plays the character, sexual distinctions are irrelevant, an unwanted intrusion by the grownup world. Duncan's performance seems so right that it is easy to forget how wrong it could be, and the show's success is chiefly hers...
Everyone should be as un-copable as Erma Bombeck, the frumpy suburban housewife who masquerades as a success ful syndicated columnist and morning-show television commentator about things frivolous and familiar. Two months before publication, Bombeck's latest volume, Aunt Erma's Cope Book, has one of the biggest advance runs in publishing history: 700,000 copies in two printings, of which 500,000 have been snapped up by bookstores. If the huge press run does not sell, Aunt Erma has a remedy. Says she: "Either we're going to have a lot of doorstops around...