Ultimate School Answer: Pruette Urges Full Integration Vision
Editorial praises Dr. Dean B. Pruette for arguing that High Point should pursue comprehensive racial integration in schools beyond legal minimums. It notes bused mixing across town to achieve a 68-32 ratio, acknowledging hardships but deeming it necessary for educational balance and long term justice. The piece contrasts federal legal aims with educational values and calls for continued progress toward humane, unified schooling.
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Dean B. Pruette
United Schools Committee
High Point
Pruette
Nixon vetoes education and agency funding bills in election year stand
President Nixon blocked two large funding proposals claiming the added billions would burden American households. Democrats push to override with expected two thirds votes while praising education bill Senate vote 88 to 0. House voting tallies 30 against. He argues budget generosity makes urban renewal and housing subsidies unnecessary.
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Nixon
White House
Senate
House
Anniversary reports slow progress toward women's equality
This anniversary review notes gains since 1920 but highlights continuing gaps in pay, promotions, and leadership. It cites female labor force growth to 31 million, low representation in professions and academia, and congressional underrepresentation, with calls to recapture the feminist surge from Seneca Falls to 1920 suffrage and beyond.
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University of Chicago
Bryn Mawr
Mount Holyoke
Sarah Lawrence
Vassar
Labor Department
Congress
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
House
Senate
Seneca Falls
N.Y
U.S
Bainbridge Colby
Tennessee
Haven Of Narcotics At Walter Reed Army Hospital
A Washington Post investigation reveals drug trafficking inside Walter Reed Army Hospital with soldiers selling heroin marijuana LSD mescaline speed and Demerol. A decorated Vietnam veteran and others admit selling to about 150 patients while hospital staff deny a problem and arrests are deemed futile.
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Washington
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Douglas MacArthur
Dwight Eisenhower
Rose Garden
Sharon Basco
Georgetown
Walter Reed
Vietnam
Drug use and rehab views from Walter Reed soldiers report
A hospital column depicts heavy drug use among soldiers with a nurse aware narcotics scene while Pentagon officials acknowledge a growing problem. Washington subway project clashes with Park Service over a stable site. authorities vow settlement and rebuilding standards despite cost pressures.
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Washington
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Rock Creek Park
National Park Service
Transit Authority
Park Service
Bus Shortage Looms as Schools Prepare for New Year
The South's largest bus maker warns hundreds of buses will be needed when schools open next month but no firm orders have arrived. North Carolina has on order a large pool of buses, yet not enough to cover the expected demand. Production declines loom except for International Harvester. A Wake County observer notes the strain of integration on bus supply.
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South
Tis
North Carolina
John Thomas
P. A. Thomas Car Works
Research Institute of America
Middle East
Congress
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Merry
Louis F. Arrants
Defense Department
Frank Bartimo
Pentagon
Bartimo
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High Point Enterprise
Perinme Dé Be
Trench Point
Terprise, Inc
Aveene High Pome
Reo
Associated Press
N.C
AP News
N. C
Allendiggs Magnet and Distributors
Indepree, Inc
Ward Griffith Company
Netonal Advertising
Women's Liberation Movement
Emo
Holt McPherson
International Harvester
Thomas
Camp Pioneer
YMCA
Brotherhood
Brad Martin
Dan Hackney
Chip Wood
Rotary Exchange
Bob Roberts
Mercer Island
Buddy
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