Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...President had set out to influence the long-range trend of judicial decisions on desegregation, a trespass on the separation of powers doctrine in spirit if not in law. He denounced at some length the ruling of a Los Angeles trial judge in a lawsuit that is still in progress. Nixon described as "probably the most extreme judicial decree so far" a Superior Court command that the city school district establish nearly precise racial balance throughout its 561-school system. (Coleman calls Los Angeles "a smug Northern district that hasn't done a thing about the segregation there.") Superior...
...from silent, its leaders have sounded comparatively subdued in the face of growing white indifference or hostility. Yet this relative calm exists on the surface only; it is largely an illusion. Blacks are asserting a new sense of pride, self-reliance-and impatience. Economically, they have made considerable progress. But this progress is most impressive in comparison with the blacks' past condition, not in comparison with white achievements. The black sense of inequality is, if anything, growing. Says the Ford Foundation's Roger Wilkins: "Racism is in every nook and cranny in this country, and each...
Assailing the views of Vice President Agnew at an alumni banquet, Yale President Kingman Brewster delivered himself of some convoluted prose worthy of Spiro himself: "Perhaps the greatest contribution we can make is to reaffirm in the face of those who would seek to coerce conformity that practical progress relies most of all on the evolution of the better by the survival of the fittest among ideas tossed in the blanket of debate, dispute and disagreement...
...meeting-like one a year earlier at the White House-was intended to force the industry into some kind of dramatic action. But at yet another meeting with the utilities last month, Brown announced that there had been virtually no progress. The statistical picture he painted was bleak...
...black colleges, several blacks at local schools confirmed his story. But there was a catch: the only jobs the blacks were offered-after graduating with degrees in economics or business-were the same typist jobs that white high school girls filled. Coupled with the absence of any signs of progress, these lapses score heavily against the company...