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...siege all but unscathed. Shops and schools were reopening, and office workers were returning to their jobs. Chieftain tanks and Russian-built armored cars, which had been in evidence everywhere, were now out of sight. Soldiers ventured into restaurants and parked their automatic weapons in corners as they ate. Locked in a monumental traffic jam, a Western diplomat sighed: "Things are back to normal in Tehran...
Each branch of the spruce was tied to the trunk. The 11-ft. ball was shaped by hand, contained with burlap, hog wire, a rope girdle and an oaken tub. Mrs. Myers insisted that the work crew, neighbors and reporters stay for lunch. For three days they worked and ate. There were vegetable soup and chicken corn soup, hot dogs and chocolate cake, green salad, and pears and peaches canned by Mrs. Myers. The neighbors came out every day to watch as their old friend the spruce was gussied up to go to the city...
Those part-time offerings have so far been underwhelmed with applicants, but some full-time ATE programs are S.R.O. No fewer than 1,521 students applied for 805 places in three "classical" schools that offer enriched programs from kindergarten through the sixth grade. La-Salle Elementary School, an ATE language academy, received 1,000 applicants for 450 slots. According to preliminary head counts, ATE has drawn 18,100 students to desegregated courses for the first time. Says Hannon, "The program is only three months old, and I think we're off to a solid start...
Hannon's critics see the program as too little, too late. They complain that ATE's 18,100-student turnout falls short of the 30,000 Hannon expected this year, and even that figure is a minute fraction of the system's total enrollment. The Chicago Urban League School that two-thirds of the city's 512 elementary schools remain either 90% white or 90% nonwhite. The state board points out that state rules require every school to have a racial composition approximating that of the school system as a whole; yet in Chicago, where...
Chicago's Tribune and Sun-Times, as well as major Loop business leaders, have endorsed ATE. Not even the critics have urged a program of mandatory busing for the entire city. "That would be ridiculous," concedes Carey Preston, one of three blacks on Chicago's school board, all of whom voted against trying ATE. Local insiders are betting that the state board will take no action this month tougher than continuing Chicago's probationary status, while settling for Hannon's promise to expand ATE and its brand of voluntary integration...