Word: white
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Berkeley, at least, all the dire predictions about the adverse effects of bus sing have not come true. Sullivan was warned that the program would turn Berkeley into a black city; instead, white enrollment in the schools actually rose during the past three years, reversing a 20-year trend. He says that this has happened because the schools provide "something exciting at the end of the bus ride" in the form of better education. He has introduced smaller classes, more guidance counselors for troubled students, sophisticated audio-visual aids. A study by the California legislature last year showed that Berkeley...
...N.A.A.C.P.'s board of directors fired Steel three weeks ago for writing an attack on the U.S. Supreme Court entitled "Nine Men in Black Who Think White" (TIME, Oct. 25). Printed in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, the article accused the court of deferring to white public opinion and "condoning or overlooking the ingrained practices that have meant the survival of white supremacy...
...protect hippies from muggers, pushers and sex perverts who prey on them. Known as "the Hippie Squad," the plainclothesmen mingle with the hippies in their hangouts, usually grow their hair long, and have beards. Even so, they are easy to spot: they tend to have paunches and wear white socks and the black shoes that are part of the regulation police uniform. But since the Hippie Squad is part of Fink's protection program, the kids don't seem to mind having the fuzz around, except when they bust a pot or acid party...
...many another nervous flyer, takes a couple of tranquilizers before getting on a plane. "It's an absurd way to travel," she explains. "One is bound to feel claustrophobic-no one was meant to be 35,000 feet up in the air." Says Comedian Bob Newhart: "I take white-knuckle flights. I have a couple of drinks before, a couple during the flight-and then I sit there and suffer...
...tenacious rear-guard action. When readers objected to King Alexander of Yugoslavia's regularly being described as "dentist-like," TIME argued doggedly in print that he "has about him an air, not quite clinical, of cleanly meticulousness commonly found in dentists. He also on occasion wears a white coat...