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...past few weeks, Eisenstadt has pledged compliance with the state's sweeping racial imbalance law, proposed a comprehensive new guidance system, hired a public relations expert to boost the school system's image, and secured adoption of Madison Park as the site for a new campus-type high school. None of these moves would have been possible during the turbulent rule of Chairman Hicks, whose obsession with the shibboleth of the neighborhood school blinded her to almost all channels of progress...
...When Eisenstadt was inaugurated as chairman last January, he declared that his primary aim was to soothe the hatred engendered by the racial imbalance controversy, and in so doing free the school committee for more positive action...
...achieve this new state of calm deliberation, Eisenstadt has attacked both the racists and the more militant elements of the civil rights movement. In his view Mrs. Hicks and the civil rights leaders were guilty of stirring up the de facto segregation issue for their own selfish, political purposes. He is convinced, for example, that Mrs. Hicks would have been defeated in both the 1963 and 1965 elections had she not been able to capitalize on the fear and hatred that the issue of imbalance created. On the other side, he attributes a good deal of the pressure...
Last summer, for instance, he was incensed at the character of the sit-ins held in the School Committee's offices. "I asked the fellow who was trying to keep me from getting to my desk just who he was and what he thought he was doing," Eisenstadt said. "He said he was from Alabama and that he'd only lived in Massachusetts for two days. Now, the only reason that that man was in my office was because he was told to be there. He had no understanding of the issues involved and no business being there...
...Eisenstadt's position has won him both friends and enemies. Perhaps his, most influential supporter is Boston's Mayor John Collins. While Collins has never openly endorsed him, the Mayor has given subtle indications of appreciation for Eisenstadt's recent efforts to improve the image of the city's schools. Last month, for example, Collins predicted at a Boston banquet that Eisenstadt would rise to a position of still greater power in city government. This statement could only mean that the Mayor envisions the School Committee's chairman as his likely successor...