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...Committee ended its first meeting Monday by electing a chairman whom Mrs. Hicks had bitterly opposed. Mrs. Hicks who is reportedly planning to enter Boston's mayoralty race this year -- had chosen not to succeed herself and supported Committeeman Joseph Lee for chairman. But Lee lost, 3-2, to 29-year-old Thomas S. Eisenstadt...
...cities-the G.O.P. has an example and an incentive to elaborate less rigid club rules and, indeed, to expand the club. To be sure, some Republicans are deeply offended by the way in which John Lindsay peeled off his party uniform before the battle. Among them was Nevada National Committeeman Melvin Lundberg, who growled, "If you tie a lemon on an orange tree, it's still not an orange." Yet the Democratic Party has never discouraged expedient hybridization-provided, at least, that oranges and lemons continue to hang from the same tree and wear the grower's label...
...late August, Committeeman Thomas Eisenstadt ignited the racial issue by attempting to block the busing of 583 children out of over-crowded Roxbury schools, a plan proposed by the Superintendent. Eisenstadt's motion passed, with Gartland and Thomas Lee dissenting. Although nearly a thousand pupils of both races had been bused the year before, for the same reasons, busing suddenly loomed as a dramatic threat of the "neighborhood school...
...School Committee headed by Mrs. Louise Day Hicks who says, "We have in our midst a small band of racial agitators, non-native to Boston, and a few college radicals...who have joined in a conspiracy to tell the people of Boston how to run their schools." Her fellow committeeman Joseph Lee shares the same viewpoint, but with a twist of his own. White children, he declares, "do not want large numbers of backward pupils from unprospering Negro families shipped into their schools." Surely Mrs. Hicks and Mr. Lee do not represent the New Boston. But where are its leaders...
Joseph Lee, another committeeman, said that "white children do not want to be transported into schools with a large proportion of backward pupils from un-prospering Negro families who will slow down their education." Both Lee and Mrs. Hicks termed the price of exchanging students "too high...