Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...legal barrier had fallen, human barriers remained. A black ninth-grader described his first day in the integrated high school this way: "You say hello to the whites in the hall and they don't even speak. It seems like we're never gonna get there...
...cabinet full of academic-achievement tests, a carton of mimeographed math and reading drills, and a pile of pocket-size dictionaries. "This is our school," he says. In the past five years, the cart's contents have brought 2,500 school dropouts all they need to crack the barrier between them and a better job: a high school equivalency diploma...
Moreover, the bridge authorities make it easy for the jumper. Roving uniformed patrols peel an occasional eye for prospects. But, principally for aesthetic reasons, the kind of barrier that radically reduced leaps from Manhattan's Empire State Building, for instance, has never blighted the beauty of the Golden Gate. This horrifies Shneidman, who has prodded the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District, the agency responsible, to withdraw its invitation to suicide. He rejects the board's argument that if it stops the bridge jumper, he will only go somewhere else to take his life...
...person cannot commit suicide when and where he wants in an impulsive moment," says Shneidman, "he might just say the hell with it." At a meeting last week, the board accepted Shneidman's proposal to consider installing a physical barrier against would-be jumpers...
...Government aimed at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks, but Philadelphia contractors so far this year have hired and trained only 60. The greatest barrier appears to be a legal one. Opponents of the plan are testing it in the courts, ironically arguing that it violates the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibits racial quotas in hiring. A federal district court in Philadelphia recently ruled that the plan's goals do not amount to illegal quotas; the decision is being appealed. Until the legal uncertainties are resolved, contractors and Government agencies are unlikely to pay much attention...