Word: transference
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Like many Southern cities in the early '60s, Charlottesville, Va., devised a school-zoning plan that produced de facto segregation. Elementary school pupils were assigned to neighborhood schools, but if members of their race were in the minority, they could transfer to schools where their own race was predominant. In effect, white students were invited to stay in white schools. When his court outlawed the practice as an evasion, Haynsworth joined in a dissent, arguing that the Constitution does not bar "the exercise of the personal tastes of the races in their associations." Later, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously...
...collapse. Women must rise at dawn to search for fresh meat; eggs are often difficult to find in the cities. For long weeks during the summer, lack of railroad cars tied up 3,600 tons of meat and 105,000 tons of other Soviet goods at the border transfer point of Cierna. No one is starving, but Czechoslovaks returning from trips to Germany and Austria carry suitcases stuffed with food...
After decades of single-sex living and learning, many of the top private campuses of the East have formally surrendered to coeducation. This fall Princeton has 151 girls, 101 of them freshmen and the rest transfer students from other colleges. Yale has accepted 588 women, including 230 freshmen. Vassar College boasts 91 new male undergraduates. Bennington College has taken...
...Tuesday, there were still 99 "floaters" -students without permanent room assignments. Seventeen of the floaters are transfer students and 15 are students returning after one or more years' absence...
...admission of 45 transfer students for whom Dean Watson's office had only set aside 16 spaces...