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...private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public school system, I'll crawl on my belly and eat grass and crow until doomsday." Studies of Southern integration show that black children profit academically from the experience. Black students in a tenth grade in Rome, Ga., were tested in 1965 and found to be performing at seventh-through ninth-grade levels. A test of succeeding groups of black tenth-graders...
...Broadway last year as the subject of serious drama. Arthur Kopit's Indians played only twelve weeks; some critics considered it noisy, disorganized theater; some audiences seemed to find the penitential message discomfiting. A pro-Indian movie, Little Big Man, starring Dustin Hoffman, has been filmed on Montana's Crow reservation. It portrays George Custer as a villain leading troops bent on genocide. Three books personalizing Indian alienation have won critical acclaim. A novel, House Made of Dawn, by N. Scott Momaday, a Kiowa who teaches English at Berkeley, won a Pulitzer prize last year. Custer Died for Your Sins...
...fifth-grade classroom in a public school in Newton, Mass. Fresh from seeing a film about baboons, the ten-year-olds are discussing "dominance"-the bane of every kid brother and sister. "I saw some birds eating bread," says a boy in a green shirt, "and this huge crow came along and took the bread because he was bigger than they were." The talk swings to the problem of dominance at the water fountain. "That's the way life is," says a pudgy philosopher. "You're weaker than the older...
...never shared in kickbacks from a construction company awarded the garage contract," the Globe explained, "but he says that he knows who received the money, and says he'll name every name. Beautiful, It is quite similar to Julius Caeser, where the Great Man thrice refused the kingly crow. "each time putting it by gentler...
Detective Sergeant James Roscoe, who is investigating the robbery, said the thieves entered both businesses through back doors, neither of which had burglar alarms. Using heavy pinch bars and crow bars, they forced open both business's safes and the book store's cash register. Then they ransacked both stores, prying open desk drawers and searching other likely places for valuables...