Word: township
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...KENT TOWNSHIP, N. Y.- Unable to vote for himself, unable to serve if elected, a 14-year-old boy is waging a vigorous campaign for supervisor, the top administrative position in ris town...
County, Fla., and fears of flooding in Clinton Township, Mich., because not enough storm sewers are being built. State and local governments spend roughly $26 billion a year to build schools, hospitals, roads, sewers, airports and the like, and last year they raised almost $11 billion of the sum by selling bonds. So far this year their bond sales are running 26% below that pace...
...Target. Black students at Evanston Township High School in Illinois, for example, have formed an organization sardonically called BOY and presented the school superintendent with a list of ten demands that is a virtual carbon copy of what blacks are agitating for on college campuses. The superintendent and the board of education are considering all the demands, and have agreed to one: they have added a course on Afro-American culture that will begin this week and be taught by a black instructor...
...school desegregation. Until recently, Washington has been using its punitive powers against school districts in the South, withholding federal subsidies from 113 of them for failure to comply with HEW guidelines. Now the Government is considering similar action against one school district in Middletown, Ohio, and another in Union Township, N.J., both of which stand to lose their subsidies if they do not meet federal integration requirements. At present, HEW has 63 investigators in the South and only 40 in the rest of the country. By mid-January, the number outside the South will be increased to 68; investigations...
...study of menu language would be complete without this item from ROD'S 1890s (Morris Township, N.J.): "London Broil-Sliced Beef, with the inevitable mushroom sauce...