High Court ruling upholds desegregation measures and local responsibility
Supreme Court affirms busing pairing and racial balancing as valid tools for school integration. Neighborhood zoning is unconstitutional if it fails to desegregate. Court upholds Charlotte-Mecklenburg decision, placing primary desegregation duties on local boards, urging action and warning that inaction will draw court intervention.
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Supreme Court
Warren. Burger
Charlotte- Mecklenburg County
Clark County
Mobile County
Ala
James’ McMillan
Charlotte-Mecklenburg
McMillan
High Court
Noted Educator criticizes U S literacy drive
Dr Carl Dolle, dean of education at North Carolina State University, delivered a dedicatory address noting over 18 million Americans sixteen and older are functionally illiterate. He blamed arrogance that shifts responsibility to students, poverty, or race and criticized universities for removing failures without systemic reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolee
Foot In Door Welfare Ramp Across Public Aid
A critique of evolving welfare policy shows a pattern where initial aid grows from 1600 to 2400 dollars per family and now faces calls for 4000 by Mayor Lindsay. The piece argues Congress inflates spending to gain votes, changing definitions and incentives to sustain public support across elections.
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Nixon
Congress
John V. Lindsay
New York
House
Proliferation of Dutch political parties at Tulip Time
Rotterdam readers see an election shaped by 28 parties with no majority, including five elderly interest groups and several religious blocs. Polls hint at gains for splinter groups while Catholics and Labor may top 30 seats each. Proportional representation fuels fragmentation, economic concerns rise with a looming wage freeze, and the Kahouters campaign little while picking tulips.
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Rotterdam
Elsiveer
Democratic Socialists
Labor Party
Holland
Debate over Army casualty counting and political timing
A congressional inquiry questions whether non combat deaths in Indochina are rising and whether some combat fatalities are miscounted as accidental. The Library of Congress found non combat deaths per thousand climbed from 2.7 in 1966 to 5.5 in 1970, prompting accusations of a numbers game to lower killed in action figures.
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Washington
William Ford
D-Mich
Ford
Library of Congress
Indochina
Pentagon
Nixon
Defense
Mel Laird
America
Wallace
Gerald Wallace
Alabama
George Wallace
Robert Millsap
Birmingham
Bolling
Huey
Home furnishings set to top the big growth wave of the decade
An Forbes sourced analysis forecasts home furnishings becoming a leading U.S. consumer sector, rivaling auto sales by the late 1970s. Sears and Burlington Industries push into carpets, furniture, and lighting as major builders expand furnishing offerings, with disposable income and changing lifestyles driving demand for home-centric goods.
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Forbes
U.S
Sears, Roebuck
Joseph Moran
Sears
Wall Street
Armstrong
Cork
Burlington Industries
Lees Carpets
Globe, Steadig
United Furniture
U.S. Plywood
Georgia-Pacific
Westinghouse
The
Tappan Co
Beatrice Foods
Sperry & Hutchinson
RCA
Coronet Industries
Dalton
ITT
Levitt & Sons
Levittmark, Inc
Levitt Homes
CNA Financial
Larwin Group
Levitt
Boise Cascade Eg
Boise Cascade
Los Angeles
Dolly Madison Industries
Inc
Joe Moran
Raymond E. Kassar
Home Furnishings
Ward and Penney
Levittmark
Leviltmark
Penney
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Michel de Ghelderode
Kwiebe Kwibus
Kwibus
Kahouters
Amsterdam
Merry
Montgomery
Gerald
Sheldon Cohen
Internal Revenue Commissioner
White House
Wallaces
Internal Revenue Service
Agriculture Department
Jamie Whitten
Department
Agriculture
Senator Soaper
Sika
By Jack Anderson
Holt McPherson
Roe Deron
Burlington
Scars and Penney
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