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...gerrymandered school districts in order to promote de facto segregation. For a while it appeared that the eleven-member Chicago school board would not renew Willis' contract, which expires in August. But then, at a recent meeting, the board voted to give him another four-year contract-with the firm understanding that Willis would retire in October 1966, when he reaches 65. Even that failed to mollify the civil righters...
...Democratic Liberal Hubert Humphrey and Republican Conservative Barry Goldwater, who traded off quips for a boffo hour at a recent banquet of the Women's National Press Club. Humphrey's best line: "Barry's so handsome that I understand he's been offered a movie contract-with 18th Century-Fox." In turn, Goldwater compared Humphrey's druggist background with the academic luster of the new Cabinet appointments: "I can't see how the Denver College of Pharmacy jibes with Harvard...
Fritz Kreisler signed his first radio contract-with an NBC summer musical program. The violinist had two good reasons for changing his antiradio mind: 1) wartime travel restrictions, 2) pleas from his fans...
...signed its newest and best contract-with Hudson Motor Car Co. It permits strikes after (but not before) a grievance procedure has been followed...
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