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...White Plains, N.Y. (pop. 55,000) became the nation's first city to abolish de facto segregation in its public school system by setting a 10% minimum and 30% maximum limit on Negro enrollment in any of its schools, and by bussing Negro pupils to previously all-white or mostly white schools. Scholastically, White Plains' campaign has paid off. Negro pupils who attended integrated schools since first grade score from 5% to 15% higher on reading and arithmetic achievement tests than third-graders who took the same tests when integration began. Both these groups are doing better than...
...travel and communications restrictions that now exist between the two countries. But it has not found the East German regime at all receptive. In fact, Willi Stoph recently replied to an earlier Kiesinger letter with a return missive demanding that Bonn renounce its "addiction" to neo-Nazism and militarism, abolish the capitalist system and spin off West Berlin as an independent "free city...
...changed since Tom Brown's Schooldays: the tradition of "six of the best" for misbehaving pupils. Although the cane and the strap are still essential equipment for every self-respecting headmaster, public indignation against corporal punishment is on the rise, and the Labor government would like to abolish it for good...
Though under great challenge from the left radicals who want to abolish the organization, most NSA officers think that the organization is basically stronger now that it has broken with the Central Intelligence Agency...
...placed. It was a defensive measure used against Germany in the First World War, and once established it never relented. Nations at the Kennedy Round were, understandably, insistent upon the abolition of this discriminatory practice. Because they did not have specific authority under the 1962 Trade Act to abolish it, the U.S. negotiators agreed tentatively to seek abolition, in return for more concessions from the Common Market, England, and Switzerland. The negotiators did have authority, however, to cut duties on 95 per cent of all chemical imports to this country by nearly 50 per cent in return for corresponding cuts...