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Jacksonville, commercial center of Florida's Duval County, wears all the badges of a prosperous city in a space-age state: bustling expressways, glass-skinned office towers, a rebuilt water front. But Duval's high schools are so poor that teachers raise money for supplies by sending students out to sell candy and chewing gum. Low salaries keep the schools short of teachers and shabbily maintained. Textbooks are old; one history hesitantly predicts that man might some day orbit the earth. But stingy spending on schools finally proved to be a costly policy. The Southern Association of Colleges...
...most U.S. cities, Duval school budgets are determined by real-estate taxes. But two-thirds of the county's householders duck out of taxes by virtue of low appraisals of the market value of their properties. When these appraisals are figured at the official assessment rate of 42% , they mostly fall below $5,000, which is then forgiven under Florida's ancient "homestead exemption." Every attempt by worried parents to elect an assessor who would raise appraisals has met defeat. Turning from the polls to the courtroom, a band of determined Jacksonville citizens this week begins testifying...
Tennessee Republicans expect to employ 20,000 volunteers to reach virtually all of the state's 1,100,000 voters. Under North Carolina's Republican Chairman J. Herman Saxon, G.O.P. registration in his state has jumped 100,000 in the past 18 months. In Florida's Duval County, Republicans already have canvassed half of the 148 precincts to tag voters as either "saints" (Republicans), "savables" (shaky Democrats) or "sinners" (unshakable Democrats). Tulsa Republicans, who had only 51 precinct workers for Nixon four years ago, now have 1,300 signed...
...Europeans of Algeria last week were neither soothed by words nor pacified by bullets. From every quarter came appeals to reason. Pope John XXIII wired Archbishop Leon Duval of Algiers, lamenting the "sorrows striking the populations of this land so dear to us" and begging "God to restore concord and end the fratricidal combat." France's High Commissioner Christian Fouchet made a moving radio appeal to the "French of Algeria," asking them not to separate themselves from the homeland. But the Europeans mostly followed the stern orders of the Secret Army Organization's gunmen, who ordered them into...
...accurately aimed; the hand grenade lobbed into a crowded restaurant maims anyone within reach of its steel splinters; the bomb exploded in street or tenement kills whoever happens to be near by. One of the few men in Algeria to protest against the murderous nightmare is Leon Duval, 58, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Algiers. ''To repay evil with evil," he warned his fellow Europeans, "is to be conquered by evil. Replying to crime with crime is dishonor. To attack the innocent, inflicting cruel punishment upon them, is an offense against God!" In answer, his parishioners openly...