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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...result, less busing was required of white students. In Tampa, desegregation recast schools in black neighborhoods as integrated centers for the sixth and seventh grades; extensive busing of white students was done only for these two grades. Black students had to put up with most of the busing for grades 1 through 5 and 8 through...
...reformer and immensely influential literary critic; in Cambridge, England. "The guru of Cambridge" in the 1920s laid down the principles of what became known as the New Criticism, an attempt to apply scientific method to analysis of literary values. Teaching briefly in China and, from 1939, for more than two decades at Harvard, he turned his attention to primary education and became the world's leading proselyte of Basic English, a boiled-down, 850-word version of the language that he considered easily learnable by foreigners...
...frat house and into sum mer jobs as waiters in a resort hotel. The hotel is about as festive as Disney World in a hail storm; the characters are so familiar you can turn down the volume and speak their lines yourself. In addition to the two romantic leads (Larry Breeding and Stephanie Faracy), the kids include one fat social retard, one bookish wimp and one wealthy, lock-jawed Wasp. For added measure the writers have stirred in a cook who re-enacts John Belushi's samurai routine and a maitre d' who resembles Danny De Vito...
...encounter with the rings of Saturn, the Pioneer 11 spacecraft headed into deep space last week, its mission accomplished. In its sweep past Saturn, it had provided the best look yet at the solar system's second largest planet, discovered what is probably an eleventh Saturnian moon and two more rings. It also confirmed the existence of another ring and a magnetic field, and dimmed hopes that Titan, Saturn's largest moon, might harbor some form of life...