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Gregory Moore '74 of Eliot House and Auburn, Ala., President; Paul J. Fornaro '74 of Claverly House and Huntington, N.Y., and William D. Ratnoff '74 of Claverly House and Huntington, N.Y., Publishers: Thomas W. Clough '73 of Mather House and Morristown, N.J., Business Manager...
Butting up against the heel of the Appalachian Mountains near Anniston, Ala., Fort McClellan appears to be the most placid of military bases. It is pastorally appointed with sweeping greensward, tall stands of shortleaf pine and pleasing arrangements of whitewashed command buildings fronted by old-fashioned verandas. It is a small post, with slightly more than 5,000 people. But McClellan is unique in that 2,000 of those are WACs; it is the largest WAC base in the world. What is more, 20% of the WACs are black. More than any other single factor, that probably accounts...
...orders to integrate has been achieved primarily by busing hundreds of blacks to hitherto all-white schools. But courts are increasingly insisting that cities desegregate their schools by more democratic two-way busing, even in major cities where logistics are complicated. Few have moved farther or faster than Mobile, Ala., which for years fought desegregation hard, appealing federal court orders no fewer than eleven times. At the time of the Supreme Court order upholding busing in the school district of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, N.C., the court made it clear that it wanted Mobile to integrate without further delay. School Board President...
...which is predominantly black. Both colleges were once officially segregated, and a special three-judge district court barred Eland's expansion on the grounds that it would undercut efforts to integrate Virginia State. The Supreme Court agreed. It also let stand a lower court ruling that forbade Brighton, Ala., to sell an abandoned junior high school building to a group intending to establish a whites-only private academy. The sale, the lower court said, would encourage racial discrimination...
...second subpoena came on the heels of a ruling Monday by federal judge W. Arthur Garrity ordering Leonard Rodberg, an administrative aid to Sen. Mike Gravel, (D-Ala.) and Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton, to testify before the jury...