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RARELY DOES an intellectual understanding generate mass movements. But President Johnson, as a de facto member, has come to the aid of the movement. The unique character of his war and the new draft policies are bringing gut reactions from disillusioned and newly-cynical students...
...White Plains, N.Y. (pop. 55,000) became the nation's first city to abolish de facto segregation in its public school system by setting a 10% minimum and 30% maximum limit on Negro enrollment in any of its schools, and by bussing Negro pupils to previously all-white or mostly white schools. Scholastically, White Plains' campaign has paid off. Negro pupils who attended integrated schools since first grade score from 5% to 15% higher on reading and arithmetic achievement tests than third-graders who took the same tests when integration began. Both these groups are doing better than...
...therefore imperative that the next Dean be a man in close touch with the students, with their hopes for the law, and with their hopes for the Law School. This is not to say that he need be an advocate of de facto "student power," merely that he do what Dean Griswold refused to do--seek out a wide variety of student views and make an honest attempt at understanding them. With rare exceptions, those who meet this qualification were all trained in the law after World War II. Because of their youth, they can appreciate fully students' concern with...
...Sweden puts women through a multilayered screening that creates excruciating delays; 56% of Stockholm-area legal abortions occur after the 16th week of pregnancy. Bureaucratic paper shuffling often holds up legal operations until the 24th week-producing live babies that sometimes cry for hours before dying. To avoid de facto infanticide, Swedish women flock to Poland for early, efficient $60 abortions. Appalled, the Swedish government has concluded that the law must be broadened to allow more and faster abortions...
...racial issue that first brought Mrs. Hicks to prominence. Since being elected to the school committee six years ago, she has vigorously fought all attempts to break down Boston's de facto school segregation. She opposes the bussing of pupils out of their neighborhoods on the ground that bussing destroys "freedom of choice," and has opposed the open-enrollment system that permits Negro parents to register their children in predominantly white schools. Though a 1965 state law to promote racial balance now makes some student bussing unavoidable in Boston, Mrs. Hicks promises to fight the measure, condemns its goal...