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...special 21-member state committee Wednesday attacked de facto segregation in schools throughout Massachusetts and recommended a detailed problem to end racial imbalance...
...boycott of Boston schools 14 months ago by nearly 20,000 students prompted the state Board of Education to set up the special committee to study de facto segregation in March 1964. The boycott, the second in the city, emphasized the growing bitterness between civil rights groups and the Boston School Committee. which refused to recognize that segregation existed in the city's schools...
...yesterday's report, the special committee declared that de facto segregation harms both Negroes and whites. "White children rarely meet Negro children as individuals. Their thinking often becomes stereotyped. Negro children growing up in ignorance of whites also tend to develop a distorted and fearful picture of all whites...
...Faculty of Arts and Sciences yesterday moved to extend formal recognition to the College's de facto Thanksgiving vacation...
...Facto Abolition. For all the current abolitionist enthusiasm, the death pen alty has in fact been dying for some time. The country's murder rate is 40% less than it was in the 1930s, and more murderers are being committed to men tal institutions. Modern penology has swung from retaliation to rehabilitation, and paroled murderers rarely murder again. Even states empowered to execute are loath to do so. While rejecting abolition, Massachusetts has not executed anyone since 1947. New Hampshire has put no one to death since 1939. According to the most recent Gallup poll, only 45% of Americans...