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...Thomas McLeod, a white minister in suburban Lexington, states firmly that "almost anyone in the Greater Boston community who protests that there is no discrimination in his locality is either unenlightened, uninformed, or uninterested." This implicit condemnation of the Boston School Committee, which has refused to admit that de facto segregation exists in the Boston schools, is an outspoken statement typical of the magazine...
...Champion. In Boston, where some 30 of the city's 190 schools have 85% or more Negroes-and are therefore described by civil rights organizations as being de facto segregated-Mrs. Louise Day Hicks was re-elected chairman of the Boston School Committee, and emerged as the city's champion vote getter. Mrs. Hicks, a lawyer, had attracted a good deal of attention by insisting that in Boston "there is no de facto segregation." She piled up 20,000 more votes than able Mayor John Collins, 44, who won re-election by pointing to his record of massive...
...bitter theory that this will guarantee adequate teaching. Superintendent Gross has ruled that out. He backs every integration step "short of the compulsory interchange of Negro and white students between distant communities." Gross relies heavily on upgrading mostly Negro schools, but to mitigate the hurts of de facto segregation he intends to amplify the city's "open enrollment" plan by permitting children of all races "free choice" to enter underused schools throughout the city...
...early to measure Gross's success, but he has certainly set a new tone in New York City. He started off facing a double crisis that threatened to collapse the school system on opening day in September: civil righters were set to boycott schools in protest against de facto segregation, and the militant teachers' union was hellbent for a massive strike. Won over by Gross's tough minded sincerity, Negroes put off their boycott; softened by his ability to com promise, the teachers accepted a face-saving settlement...
...Kashmir dispute is even less likely to be resolved than the China border problem, he said. "There are many unsettled problems in this world and this is one of them." After a 15 year de facto partition of the country among India, Pakistan, and China, in the last few months "negotiators have finally agreed that the solution is no longer a plebiscite but is instead a formal partition of Kashmir," Nehru said. The situation now appears to be permanently deadlocked, however, over where the partition would be drawn...