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...arose in some cities, most notably Boston and Louisville, in recent years most school desegregation in the U.S. "has gone peacefully and smoothly." The commission based its report on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif., Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and comprehensive analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation...
...LITERARY KEY to late Puritan ideology, Bercovitch chooses not the jeremiads but Cotton Mather's epic work, the Magnalia Christi Americana--particularly his "Life of John Winthrop." In his "Life," Mather portrays Winthrop as a "Nehemius Americanus," a peculiarly American saviour whose life foreshadows the Second Coming. Mather's ambition, according to Bercovitch, is to be the Winthrop of his generation; writing during the decline of theocracy, Mather, he says, offered himself--in his capacity as a representative American type--as a link between the triumphal era of Winthrop and the millenial future, thus initiating a special mode of defining...
Died. William Red Fox, who claimed to be 105, self-styled Sioux Indian chief and controversial man of letters and humbug; in Corpus Christi, Texas. His 1971 book. The Memoirs of Chief Red Fox, told it all-in fact, more than all: in his memoirs, the chief recalled his days acting in vaudeville and the movies, and touring with Buffalo Bill Cody's wild West show. He remembered catching fish with the hooked ribs of field mice and the braves' 1876 victory dance after they had wiped out General Custer. But it was his blow-by-blow account...
...remedy such situations, the federal courts have frequently ordered cities to bus children to neighborhoods far from their homes. In addition to Boston and Louisville, cities now being forced by courts to bus include Miami; Corpus Christi and Beaumont, Texas; Charlotte, N.C.; Denver; San Francisco; Springfield...
WALKER RIDEOUT Corpus Christi, Texas...