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...when the results began to filter out last week, they proved truly alarming. In Duval County, which includes Jacksonville, 45% of the juniors failed the math section and 14% could not handle the reading and grammar part. Only 6% of the juniors at Jacksonville's overwhelmingly black Stanton High School passed the math section...
Black Venus. In the areas of personal consolation, reports de Jonge, the self-styled Prince of Clouds did no better. "He had acquaintances but no friends," observed one acquaintance. For 19 years Charles sporadically lived with Jeanne Duval, his "Black Venus," an actress of little distinction but a first-class nag-the last person to appreciate the extraordinary poems she inspired, like The Promises of a Face. More briefly a "White Venus" entered his life: Apollonie Sabatier, a famous salon keeper of the day. She elicited a series of poetic love letters-including...
Clearly, the Ford camp was more jubilant. "Congratulations, Mr. President, you knocked him out of the ballpark," Presidential Aide Michael Duval told Ford. Replied the President: "I loved every minute of it." He then went off to a Philadelphia rally for his Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey committees and proclaimed: "We did all right ... When we get to the next one, we'll do even better." Then he shouted: 'The American people want four more years of Ford...
...Ford does not have a psychological need to seek reassurance from subordinates. His tranquillity and self-confidence are reflected in his frank assessment of his own strengths and weaknesses. "It doesn't bother him to say 'I don't know,' " observes White House Aide Michael Duval. Much to the distress of some of his advisers, Ford has been largely content to allow Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to dominate the headlines on foreign affairs. "He just doesn't feel the need to compete with Henry," says a senior aide...
...city to city, but Jacksonville (pop. 528,000) offers an illustrative example of both the battle and eventual accommodations. For 15 years after the Supreme Court's Brown decision, the 14th largest school district in the country paid little, if any, attention to the law of the land. Duval County (Jacksonville and environs) employed busing, but primarily to move black students-30% of the roughly 115,000 students-from throughout the county to inner-city all-black schools. During that period, civil rights demonstrations by black groups prompted a violent reaction from the conservative working-class whites...