Word: mecklenburg
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three weeks of "replacement" games last October, Washington was the only team that stayed out en masse. Something must be said for solidarity. Meanwhile, the few Denver players who crossed the line, Receiver Steve Watson among them, seemed invariably to get injured. Picketing outside the stadium, Bronco Linebacker Karl Mecklenburg did some temporary damage to his image, retrieving and tearing up an eightyear-old's autograph when the boy started to go into the game...
...holy man, it was a world of trouble. There, in a third-floor medical cell of the Mecklenburg County jail in Charlotte, N.C., sat Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh last week, facing 35 counts of conspiring to violate immigration laws. Back home in Rajneeshpuram, Ore., where he ran a 1,300-member commune that espouses free love and the good life, the Bhagwan (Revered One) was accustomed to more deferential treatment, not to mention a more elegant life- style that offered, among other amenities, no fewer than 90 Rolls-Royces...
...Richmond-area gang killings in 1979; by electrocution; in Richmond. Last May Briley masterminded the largest death-row breakout in history when, with his brother James, 28, and four other convicted murderers, he dressed as a guard and drove an official van out of the maximum-security prison in Mecklenburg, Va., and was not captured until 19 days later in Philadelphia...
Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., boasts another intriguing teacher-development program. With the help of his faculty, Superintendent Jay Robinson is now working out a career plan that would identify 26 qualities an instructor should exhibit. Teachers would receive extensive training through a center that already houses a library of curriculum materials and sets up workshops to sharpen skills. Favorable evaluations would lead to pay bonuses as teachers advanced up a three-step career ladder to tenured status. Says Robinson: "Merit-pay plans attempt to identify excellence and reward it. Our plan's emphasis is on creating great teachers through training...
...landmark 1971 case, Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court's authority to mandate school busing where government policy had been shown to create segregation. But in its friend-of-the-court brief, Reagan's Justice Department argued last week that lower courts have interpreted Swann too broadly and should be allowed to take into account the "educational, social and economic costs of busing." These "costs," at least as argued in the Nashville case, include "white flight" from the public school system...