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Boston Mayor John Collins, rather than worry about integrating the city's school system, has decided to try to blunt the cutting edge of the Commonwealth's racial imbalance law. He is asking the General Court for permission to borrow $6.3 million to cover funds withheld by the state last year, when Boston failed to submit a satisfactory plan for integration; that permission should be refused...
...After icy silence from the French and a few protocol snubs to put Wilson in his place, the atmosphere warmed when Wilson and Foreign Secretary George Brown came face to face with De Gaulle. Wilson did most of the talking; De Gaulle asked the questions. The topics were predictable: Commonwealth trade (Britain's old trading partners would have to be given some concessions if Britain entered the market) Europe's technological plight, East-West relationships...
...failure of one out of four youths-a high percentage of them Negroes-to pass the Armed Forces Qualifications Tests. Shockley asks: "Is environment the only cause? Is perhaps some of the cause hereditary?" After searching for answers in scientific literature, the physicist recently told a meeting of the Commonwealth Club of California that he found "only unconvincing assertions that carry no sense of certainty." This "environment-hereditary uncertainty," he says, prevents an intelligent attack on city slum problems and may be contributing to a decline in the overall quality of the U.S. population...
Should the hearing find the person still "mentally ill" he could be retained in an institution but the Commonwealth would be required to review the commitment within six months and once a year thereafter...
...General Court would be wise to listen to the Bar Association on the bill but it shouldn't wait until summer, when many members are absent, tired, or otherwise disinterested, before considering this legislation. The Commonwealth, as Rep. Cawley noted when announcing the bill, has a deep obligation to see that civil rights of all of its citizens are protected...