Word: township
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wants 24 ninth-graders? They graduated last June from George Washington Carver Elementary School in suburban Detroit's Royal Oak Township (pop. 8,000).* Last week every high school in the area refused to accept them. It was not just that the youngsters are Negroes; they also happen to be products of a black hell of vice and corruption...
...Government spawned present conditions in Royal Oak Township during...
...suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction) and chairman of the board of supervisors of suburban Pine Township: "The American suburb is the last outpost of democracy, the only level left on which the individual citizen can make his wishes felt, directly and immediately. I think there's something idealistic about the search for a home in the suburbs. Call it a return to the soil...
...suburban Buddhas -the charcoal grills. Mint-flavored iced tea or tart martinis chilled thirsty throats, and from across hedgerows and fences came the cries of exultant youngsters and the yells and laughter of men and women engaged in a rough-and-tumble game of croquet or volleyball. (In Springfield Township, near Philadelphia, nine couples recently pounded through a rousing volleyball match; five of the women were pregnant, but no emergency deliveries were made that...
From nearby New Trier Township High School, for example, Princeton received three applications...