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...school districts are bowing to the inevitable. Now 94% of the region's school systems can be officially classified as desegregated. Nonetheless, because of residential patterns and other factors, perhaps half of the 3,100,000 black pupils in the eleven states will continue to attend schools that are either all black or predominantly so. As the experience in Northern cities has shown, legal desegregation does not necessarily result in integration, the actual mixing of races in schools. The next battle will be over how much-if anything-a community is required to do to assure racial balance...
...continue to rant racism get less of a hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...
...nonpolitical chores in Washington. He largely avoids the Senate these days. Last spring he was publicized as the chairman of the Nixon Cabinet committee for desegregation of schools, but he has missed its last seven meetings. He is Nixon's chief liaison with state governments, but did not attend the last Governors Conference. Soon, however, he will be seeing many of the Governors, as well as Senators, in the more combative forum of the fall campaign...
...acts as quarterback for, a group of seven leading moneymen, who travel from many parts of the U.S. to meet regularly, usually at Dreyfus' Manhattan headquarters, to discuss inflation and the economy, the problems of the brokerage business and the future structure of the exchanges. Among the men who attend the four-hour sessions are Thomas Reeves of Investors Diversified Services, Wellington Fund's John Bogle, Mellon Bank's Lloyd Pederson, InterCapital's Fred Stein (no kin), and Kidder, Peabody's Ralph De-Nunzio, who is vice chairman of the New York Stock Exchange...
...Split Nair Dyke. Unfortunately, some Asian students are keenly aware of the family sacrifices made so that they can attend college in Australia; many also deeply fear the loss of face that accompanies failure. Their struggle with Strine can lead to despair and, in some cases, to severe family crisis...