Word: working
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scheduled to desegregate by next fall studied their Mississippi counterparts for a clue to their own future behavior. Parents and officials in Northern cities, several of which are also under pressure to end de facto school segregation (see following story), watched to see if integration could be made to work. For both groups, the auguries were unpromising...
...institution but a way of life. In one important way, however, Yazoo City differs greatly from other communities in this bastion of the Old Confederacy: it has not only accept ed the inevitable and desegregated its schools, but has actually gone out of its way to make integration work. "If it will work anywhere, it will work here," says Norman A. Mott Jr., the third in his family line to edit the weekly Yazoo City Her ald. "Lord knows we've tried hard...
...until last October in Bloomfield Hills, Mich., attracted prominent representatives of the sports world as well as the flush, sedentary set. While Jerome Cavanagh was mayor of Detroit, Dice occasionally dined at the mayoral residence. All the while, he seemed impervious to the normal hazards of his line of work. Local authorities were no problem, explained one federal official. "A policeman would see the people around Dawson-sports celebrities, the mayor, millionaires-and back off." La Cosa Nostra, which normally imposes a tax on gamblers outside its own organization, seemed as puzzled as the police about Dawson's activities...
...question. Yet it is only in the past decade that commissions have flowered so profusely. Lyndon Johnson appointed dozens of them; so has Richard Nixon, though he prefers to call them "task forces." Today, at least 3,000 are operating at the federal level alone: countless more are at work for state and local governments. This month, Nixon added yet another to the list by signing into law a congressional act creating a new, three-member presidential Council of Environmental Advisers...
...success of a commission depends on the quality of its prestigious commissioners and, perhaps more important, on that of its less visible staff. Says Daniel Bell: "It is vital to create a balance between stuffed shirts and those who will do some work." Often one determined member can carry the rest of the commission along with him. Retired from the presidency of Johns Hopkins University, Chairman Milton Eisenhower of the Violence Commission had ample time and energy to devote to the report; he thus managed to persuade both liberals and conservatives to accept his moderate approach. No doubt...