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Participants in the march will gather at the Harriet Tubman House on the corner of Columbus and Mass. Ave., at 2 p.m. today. State Rep. Melvin H. King, the leader of the walk, refused to outline the route of the walk...
...Falwell is moving in a big way into political activism on the national scene. His patriotic rally made its debut at the capitol in Richmond Sept. 13. Last week, with an entourage of 50 (choir, soloists, sound technicians, a bodyguard), he went to Columbus, and Harrisburg, Pa. This week it will be Albany. In cooperation with Washington-based New Right political groups, he has just organized his first purely secular enterprise, Moral Majority Inc., and plans to hit all 50 states within 18 months. He sees Moral Majority as a much needed antidote to progressive public interest organizations like Common...
...quiet in Columbus and the possibility that busing may get a fairly smooth start this week in beleaguered Cleveland stood in marked contrast to Septembers past, when busing began in cities like Louisville and Boston. But busing remains one of America's most tense and torturous topics. Even in Columbus, police added earplugs to their antiriot gear to help them keep calm in case they encountered a screaming mob of irate parents...
...Board of Education decision. A third of American children now go to school in districts that have adopted desegregation plans. Both those who favor busing and those who hate it hardened their positions long ago, remaining as closed to argument as if they had borrowed earplugs from the Columbus cops...
...suggests, busing's chances of success are slight. According to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, the average black pupil in the North and West now attends schools more segregated than those in the South. After the U.S. Supreme Court gave yet another go-ahead to desegregation in Columbus last July, the U.S. Justice Department announced, without disclosing the targets, that it intends to investigate similar school districts elsewhere. As school opens this year, TIME examines four representative communities that, over the past eight years, have tried busing with varying success, sometimes peacefully, sometimes...