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...more prevalent danger is that relatively affluent whites will increasingly abandon the public schools to the blacks and poor whites. There are possibly 300 white academies ready to open or reopen in Georgia, 100 in Mississippi, at least one in most of the counties of South Carolina. Many communities are reducing their tax support of public schools so that taxpayers can better afford private tuition. "The cause of public education in Mississippi is at the lowest point since the schools started in 1870," warns R.W. Griffith, Mississippi's assistant superintendent of public education. "It's a pathetic situation...
...modern suburbia. In the new film everyone drives a Rolls Royce, wears well-coordinated clothes, and sits in livingrooms with impressive views. But along with Meyer's new ambience his characters have lost some of their old verve. Beyond the Valley of the Dolls lacks Meyer's notoriously tantalizing abandon. Disappointingly he has acquired serious pretentions...
...Bibles were printed by a state press, on paper donated by the Archbishop of Canterbury. Although religious education is prohibited in the state schools, 1,900 students attend Orthodox seminaries and theological institutes. Many of the younger Orthodox nuns and monks, who were forced in 1967 to abandon their vocations for "socially useful" work, have been quietly permitted to return to the serenity and beauty of their monasteries...
...BOLSHEVIKS reluctance to abandon immediately their methods of wartime governance in turn, led to a mass of strikes and rural unrest that nearly brought the regime to its knees. As winter set in, supply levels in the major cities approached subsistence levels and the populace began blaming the party for all the misfortune. Labor protest crippled Petrograd in February 1921, and peasant revolt flared as never before. The government deftly maneuvered itself out of these crises but nevertheless felt the blow, and at a party congress in March, Lenin finally introduced the agricultural liberalization that was to become the cornerstone...
...Angeles, defense attorney Paul Fitzgerald told reporters, "If we're going to have the chief executive of this nation categorically or uncategorically speculate on people's guilt, we ought to abandon this court system. Maybe President Nixon in a news conference ought to determine whether these people are guilty...