Word: townships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...high school student in 1961 has a new view of his possibilities. At Philadelphia's Central High School, for example, students now carry five major subjects instead of four. "They can do much more than we thought," says one teacher. At suburban Chicago's New Trier Township High School, 57% of the students took extra courses last summer, mostly for the fun of it. At Detroit's Cass Technical High School, A-average Senior Harley Shaiken, 16, spends 37½ hours a week in classes that range from qualitative analysis to enriched English literature. He works...
Once war was declared, Wirges waged it with unabating belligerence. After an election last June, in which a Conway County township, Catholic Point, voted 93-2 in favor of a machine candidate, Wirges took a census of township voters: the first 14 voters he talked to swore that they had voted against the machine. The Democrat's story went a long way toward proving hanky-panky at the polls-although the county government has yet to take any action. When Morrilton's city aldermen, ignoring two defeats on a new sewer tax referendum, enacted a special ordinance permitting...
Down by the Riverside. Appalled by the growing decay, Newburgh's city council last fall went looking for a businesslike city manager. The council's choice was brash, balding Joseph McDowell Mitchell, 39, who had already served in administrative jobs in Culver City, Calif., and Marple Township, Pa. Mitchell ordered a survey of the welfare program, discovered that Newburgh's relief expenditures -$983,000 out of an overall city budget of $3,134,000 for 1961-came to more than the city spent on police and fire protection. He seemed shocked to learn that most...
Tomorrow in Baker 100, Harold B. Gores, president of Educational Facilities Laboratory, Inc., in New York, will discuss "National Goals in education" at 915 a.m.; and Lloyd S. Michael, Superintendent of Evanston, III., Township High School, and Paul J. Misner, Superintendent of Schools in Glencoe, III., will address the conference...
...Chemist Daniel S. Trifan and his wife last week won their fight to educate their three gifted children at home. (TIME, May 5). Charged with being "disorderly persons" because they kept their children out of public school, the Trifans won exoneration from Magistrate A.C. Reeves Hicks of West Windsor Township, N.J., who found state officials "sadly lacking" in proof that the children are not getting an education "equivalent" to that in schools...