Boston: Desegregation Bus Plan Sparks Attendance Drop
Boston launches court ordered school desegregation with 18 235 bus riders split roughly evenly by race as massive absenteeism and parental fears surface across the city. Police oversee tense openings at South Boston and Roxbury amid pickets while officials report no injuries.
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Boston
UPI
South Boston High School
Progressive Labor Party
Barbara Kopans
City Hall Information Center
Robert diGrazia
John Best
Hyde Park High School
Seaver Street
Blue Hills Avenue
Roxbury
Martin Luther King School
William F. Leary
Leary
U.S
Edward M. Kennedy
D-Mass
Interagency
U.S. District Court
W. Arthur Garrity
Garrity
NAACP
Oceanographer Chases Currents Near Shoreline Fronts
Oceanographer Allen Hartwell, 29, studies sea currents by dropping about 4,000 bottles into the Gulf of Maine between New Hampshire and Nova Scotia to trace wind and tide patterns. His work for Normandeau Associates includes clients like oil firms and New Hampshire’s main power company planning a 1.2 billion marsh front plant at Seabrook. Hartwell stresses the sea’s treacherous beauty and the value of mapping coastal drift for safety and industry.
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Manchester
N.H
UPI
Allen Hartwell
Hartwell
Gulf of Maine
New Hampshire
Nova Scotia
Tim Clark
Rye Beach
Normandeau Associates
Bottle
Plum Island
Massachusetts
North Shore
Seabrook
Continental Shelf
Maine-New Hampshire
Boston Harbor
Atlantic
Cape Cod
Insurance shortage warning at convention
B P Russell, chair of a New York insurance holding company, warned at the National Association of Insurance Agents convention in Miami that the industry faces a potential capacity crunch. He cited shrinking invested reserves, a slow market crash, a damaged bond market, and rising loss ratios turning underwriting profits into losses.
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Miami
UPI
B. P. Russell
New York
National Association of Insurance Agents
Russell
Ance
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ST. Louis, Mo
William Toney
Toney
St. Louisan
Houston
St Louis County
Robert L. Campbell
George F. Gunn Jr
Gunn
Engand
Donald Ayers
Nashua
Blondie
By Dhic Young
Charlie Brown
Steve Canyon
Johnny Hart
Milton Caniff
H Yi
UNION
JOY
Ibs
Ann Dale Goodie
Grand Union
Hudson Valley
Kai
Florida
Schuler Potato Chips
Keebler
Golden's
Chase & Sanborn
White River
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