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Licht, had proposed active opposition to Mrs. Louise Day Hicks, advocate of de facto segregation in the Boston schools, in School Committee elections this fall. In addition he had described an Executive Council disagreement over the question of inviting Georgia's segregationist governor Lester Maddox to speak to the club...
During his two terms in office, Brooke dealt with a variety of touchy situations. He collided with Negro leaders in 1963, when he ruled against a plan for a pupils' hooky-for-a-day demonstration against de facto school segregation. He also clashed with both school and church by insisting that Massachusetts must observe the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling against public-classroom prayers. He injected himself in the helter-skelter investigation of the Boston Strangler murders, managed to bring some coordination to the detective work, but invited ridicule in the press when he brought in a Dutch clairvoyant...
...this context there is widsepread support for the suggestion of the Pope and others that the resumed truce be extended de facto by restraint on both sides, even if no formal agreement is reached. And there is hope that if fighting must be resumed in 1967 it will be resumed on a reduced scale...
...year and a half ago, in response to pressure to do something about de facto segregation in Boston, the School Committee told parents that they could send their children to any school in the city where there was an empty seat...
...from those who fear that enlistment in the army would plummet if men were given a respectable way out. The army, they say, would be left with those who failed to meet the physical or mental requirements of the volunteer agencies. In a middle-sized war, with the de facto exemptions of volunteer workers unaffected, alternative service couldn't compare with frontline duty...