Word: westfield
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TODD ROTHBARD Westfield...
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...right to murder with impunity." Yet there has always been a democracy of homicide. Ever since Cain slew Abel, murder has been a classless crime. The East Harlem father who hurls his children from the roof is paralleled across the Hudson in the affluent New Jersey suburbs: a Westfield insurance salesman named John List was indicted last winter on a charge of shooting his wife, mother and three children and ranging four of the bodies side by side in his mansion's empty ballroom...
...students to high school by bus or public transportation and maintains de facto school segregation (TIME, April 3), probably could integrate with no increase in busing-not that it wants to. Small towns where all children walk to school could balance schools racially by following the example of Westfield, N.J., which integrated its schools simply by reassigning blacks to white schools and hiring three new crossing guards to get them there safely. But Boston and Westfield are hardly typical. New Jersey education authorities, for example, estimate they could racially balance schools in 36 districts without new busing, but they could...
With Relish. Wallace replied shrewdly. He decreed that a 15-year-old suburban Birmingham white student, Pamela Davis, should be assigned by the Jefferson County school board to the predominantly white Minor High School. Under a federal court order, Pamela had been assigned to Westfield High School, 22 miles from her home and 95% black. One day later, Wallace pressed the issue further by proclaiming his intention to reopen one of the 140 all-black or largely black schools that had been shut down in compliance with a court ruling. "My order transcends the orders of the court," he snapped...