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...Supreme Court finally decided to hear the Texas suit; it is a classic case of discrimination by pocketbook. The suit was brought by a group of parents led by Demetrio P. Rodriguez, a civil service worker at Kelly Air Force Base whose two children attend Edgewood elementary school in a predominantly Mexican-American section of San Antonio. Rodriguez visited the school in 1968 and found that water fountains did not work, bathrooms had no toilet paper, science rooms had no sinks and the library was short of books. Moreover, the school's dropout rate...
...managed to visit nearly every installation where such work is under way. He flew over the Utah salt flats to see the vast reach of the Dugway Proving Grounds; he went to the biological laboratory at Fort Detrick, Md., the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver, the scientific offices at Edgewood Arsenal in Maryland, and the huge storage depot at Tooele, Utah...
...troopers during last year's civil rights riots in Rochester, by National Guardsmen during the 1963 and 1964 racial riots in Cambridge, Md., by U.S. troops and Panamanian police in the Canal Zone crisis. Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara personally tested CS in a training chamber at the Edgewood, Md.. Arsenal 18 months ago, found it "damned unpleasant...
Under Old Soldier George Washington's portrait and Old Soldier Napoleon Bonaparte's framed maxims ("There Is No Strength Without Justice"), a military court convened last week at the Army Chemical Center at Edgewood, Md. to judge ten young privates who never wanted to be old soldiers at all. The ten: drafted college-trained scientists stationed at the center to carry on Army chemical research. The charge: bringing discredit to the Army with bawdy songs and raucous conduct during an off-post beer party...
Wesleyan College defeated the Crimson golf team yesterday, 4 to 3. The match was played at the Edgewood Country Club in Cromwell, Conn., and a good part of the varsity's defeat was due to their lack of familiarity with the course. Wesleyan won three strokes on Crimson blind shots, although all of the Harvard golfers shot 80 or under...