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Today in the School Committee elections Bostonians face a clear choice between progress and stagnation. Mrs. Louise Day Hicks and her confederates William O'Connor and Thomas Eisenstadt propose to ignore the fact that Negro enrollment rose by 1900 last year, and white enrollment fell by 1500; they encourage the belief that all Negro children can be crammed into Roxbury's ancient schools...
Hicks, O'Connor, and Eisenstadt ignore the new Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Law. Their fellow incumbent Joseph Lee proposes to comply with it by shipping Negro children out to suburban school systems...
...central question which the Operation Exodus incident raises is, why did Eisenstadt introduce his resolution when he did? While he and Mrs. Hicks portray the ban on busing as a defense of the neighborhood school, over 1000 students had been bused last year, without raising a public objection from anyone on the School Committee. If Eisenstadt had not put the busing plan to a vote, it probably would not have become a partisan issue...
Second and even more important, the School Committee's biennial elections are coming up this November. Observers have speculated that Eisenstadt felt that he was losing votes because he had endorsed a motion for the School Committee to meet with the leaders of the school boycott of 1964. His new busing proposal, however, placed him solidly back in the Hicks camp, and provided both him and Mrs. Hicks with a political hobbyhorse for the coming campaign...
...preliminary election vote is any indication (Mrs. Hicks ran way out in front and Eisenstadt was second), a large number of people were convinced. Mrs. Hicks' proportion of the vote increased substantially over the 1963 returns in atleast four of the precincts containing Exodus-receiving schools...