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The commentator, who professors here said is regarded as the "Walter Cronkite of Soviet television," was here to talk with several faculty members and to visit several Boston schools for a documentary on the problems of court-ordered busing in Boston.
"I never thought I'd be going South for a lesson in racial relations," said Linda Lawrence, a senior at Boston's troubled Hyde Park High School. But last week Linda and three other Hyde Park students flew to Charlotte, N.C., to learn what they could from that...
The idea for the trip came from Charlotte students themselves. After reading about the demonstrations and boycotts that have plagued the busing and desegregation program in Boston, students at West Charlotte High wrote letters to the Boston Globe, telling how integration had worked at their school.
Charlotte seemed an appropriate spot for the Northerners to visit. It became a landmark in school desegregation in 1970, when a federal judge ordered crosstown busing, which originally affected about one-fourth of the district's 75,000 pupils (some 46,000 out of 77,300 students now take...
Moral Order. The prevailing tone has always been fiercely, unmistakably Irish and Roman Catholic. Despite its insularity, the community used to feel that it had clout in the region's politics. But one of its most illustrious heroes, Mayor James Michael Curley, is long dead, and former House Speaker...