Word: worke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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First, says McLaughlin, governments must take stock of water supplies. "There has been very little work done on making an inventory of our water. Nobody intelligently can say that we have this much supply left or that we are depleting it at this rate...
Students also work on houses that are being built by Shelter Institute graduates in the countryside around Bath. Such on-site experience helps them gain the self confidence needed to build their own houses. Says Pat Hennin: "There are no insurmountable problems. If you're certain you can do it, it will get done." Reports a former student who built his own house: "I got discouraged, but the house kept going...
...about transporting some 35,000 pupils newly reassigned to different schools. The whole community mobilized to make the operation a great success. On the first day of school Mayor Tom Moody was able to announce: "We may not like what's happening, but we're going to work hard...
Discussion and disputes about busing continue. Opponents say it is costly and ineffective. Its backers urge it as the only way of achieving integration. Others feel it is about to disappear, simply because it does not work or because they resent Government control. Proponents correctly note that just such Government control, as law, has been the main cause of school integration in the U.S. since the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision. A third of American children now go to school in districts that have adopted desegregation plans. Both those who favor busing and those who hate it hardened...
...group can do to fight crime. Another citizens crime commission, in Wichita, is run like an FBI cover operation. It is headed by former G-Man Maurice ("Corky") Corcoran, 60, who likes making "a stakeout" and boasts of nipping a bingo operation and an abortion ring. But the main work of the 24 citizens commissions around the country is to be watchdogs. Privately supported, mostly with business contributions, the groups have professional staffs ranging from 19 in Chicago to one in Saginaw, Mich. They have no power to make arrests or subpoena witnesses. But by serving as independent monitors...