Word: ward
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...began hiring any college graduates, even if they could teach only one period a day, yet wound up with 50 jobs filled by substitutes and retired teachers who, by law, must quit within 60 days or lose their pensions. Kansas City's director of school personnel, Robert Ward, says it takes about 50 telephone calls to find five substitutes when a regular teacher is sick-and on some days 150 are absent...
Still, Lyndon Johnson suffers from one further problem: Lyndon Johnson. "The prevailing weakness of most public men is to slop over," Humorist Artemus Ward wrote a century ago. "G. Washington never slept over." The pun aside, Ward stated a problem that has plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy...
...were Black Muslims could hold their own religious services. Howard's request was bucked up to Prison Superintendent W. K. Cunningham Jr., who responded by demanding the names of the other Black Muslims. When Howard refused to give them, he was packed off to the maximum-security ward, where prisoners get only two meals a day, are not permitted to work or earn money, are deprived of radio, TV and movies, denied access to the library and educational classes, and allowed one bath a week...
Unsigned List. Understandably, Howard was anxious to get out of the maximum-security ward. After failing to get satisfaction in state courts, in March of last year, Howard filed a petition in the U.S. District Court, claiming that he was being denied freedom of religion. Cunningham and his assistant testified that they could no longer remember whether or not Howard had asked for religious services, but Judge John Butzner Jr. held that he must have "expressed his desire to hold Muslim religious services"-otherwise there would be no rational explanation for the superintendent's order. Even so, the court...
...from the Black Muslim movement, and has been separated for four years from his unnamed fellow prisoners. Whether those prisoners were Muslims as he contends, or a group of his followers as the state now contends, Howard, at week's end, was still confined in the maximum-security ward...