Word: surburban
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During the raid, a number of the surburban police wore no badges. A Somerville police officer said that his men had been instructed to remove their badges during the period of the raid...
...large, the Ed School commitment to urban problems remained small. The School was a long way from the torn textbooks, classroom spitballs, and ghetto ferment. Graduating students still fought for jobs in Newton, which (with neighboring surburban towns) had long commanded most of the Ed School's time and talent...
NEWSPAPERS Many a metropolitan newspaper has tried to cope weith surburban sprawl rom downtown by slipping surburban supplements into regular editions and shipping them to outlying communitties. The Los Angeles Times was one newspaper following the practice, usuing many "zoned" editions to serve some 76 towns in the surrounding suburbs. Times Publisher Otis Chandler watched the process with growing dissatisfaction, then decided that the only solution is for a newspaper to grow the way a modern city-community grows...
...York had twelve daily newspapers of general circulation in 1930; now it has six. Despite the rising number of surburban newspapers, the trend toward one-newspaper towns is clear and dangerous. The economics of journalism being what they are, the future looks bleak. Ask not for whom the Mirror folds; it folds for thee...
Emphasizing the need for increased funds to problem schools, Conant stated, "The contrast in money spent per pupil in wealthy surburban schools and in the slum schools challenges the concept of opportunity in American public education." The Negro student will benefit more from improved schools, he added, than from token integration across zoning lines...