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Irondequoit, an affluent suburb of Rochester, N.Y., has taken 50 first-and second-graders from the city's Negro areas. In Los Angeles, 310 Negroes from first grade to high school have been transplanted daily into such upper-class neighborhoods as Bel Air. Cincinnati is bussing 100 city Negroes out of their neighborhoods, including some into its suburban perimeter...
...Negro trying to break out of the ghetto. "We have our own section here," said a storekeeper in South Boston. "Why can't the Negroes be happy in their own area?" Chicago's "white riots" against Negroes who were demonstrating for open housing were fomented largely by first-and second-generation Americans-mostly of Irish, Italian, Swedish and Eastern European ancestry-who have a long history of ethnic animosity...
...would be a tragedy of the first order," said Home Secretary Frank Soskice, introducing the bill, "if our country, with its unrivaled tradition of fair play, perfect respect for the rights and dignity of the individual, should see the beginnings of the development of a distinction between first-and second-class citizens." Britons themselves, of course, are among the most class-conscious people in the world, but Soskice was talking about a still more unfortunate class that was not even born in Britain. For the bill was the first formal recognition of the fact that Britain, like...
...could not hold the wall. The sled dropped like a stone from the face of the curve, and the runners were damaged in the fall. As a final indignity, the U.S. wound up using an old Podar sled for the two-man race. Steersman McKillip leaped in feet first-and put one leg right through the steering wheel. At that point he decided that anything was the better part of valor, and quit...
...MURDER: The distinction between first-and second-degree murder, which depends upon whether the murderer killed with "premeditation and deliberation," has been eliminated. Under the current code, says the commission, "a defendant's life frequently hangs upon a jury's decision concerning a highly technical issue." Under the revised code, there is only one degree of murder; mitigating circumstances would affect the sentence, not the charge...