Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always worth watching for the sheer pleasure of it. Kennedy soothed his aching back in Napoleon's gold bathtub while awed aides from Nebraska and Massachusetts watched. L.B.J. brought his exercise bicycle along, bolted it to the floor of Air Force One, and pumped away in his sweat suit at 37,000 feet over Asia in 1967. As he pedaled, he gave an interview to reporters on the glories of the first presidential circumnavigation of the globe. It was on this trip that he delivered a bust of himself to a startled Pope Paul VI in the Vatican...
...soon as OCR filed suit the outcry from students, teachers, faculty and alumni of the elite schools and the city's middle class in general reached the rooftops, How can an entrance exam consisting mostly of math and vocabulary be biased? they ask. Don't the schools already have an affirmative action program for minorities? If a student can't pass the entrance exam how is he going to handle the school's tough curriculum? If these schools--bastions of academic excellence in a school system of declining funds, declining quality, declining interest--are undermined by considering race over merit...
...wins the suit, the flight of the middle class from the city will be significantly accelerated. New York is already well on its way to becoming a dark island in a lighter suburban sea, and the flight of the middle class has already cut into the city tax base with disastrous effect. Overzealous pursuit of numerical racial equity by federal bureaucrats will greatly speed this process, with unfortunate results for everyone concerned--black and white...
...federal district court jury in Boston failed to reach a verdict last night after being charged in a suit to determine whether the Wampanoag Indians of Mashpee, Cape Cod, are legally a tribe...
...issue in the 10-week trial is whether the Indians constitute a tribe that can legally press its claim in a federal court. A verdict in favor of the Wampanoags would allow them to follow through on a second suit that could give them title to the disputed land...