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...logic of integration, the South's struggling Negro colleges should soon fade away, and Negroes (still only 3% of U.S. college enrollment) should flock to integrated campuses. Yet no such thing is happening; the shift is socially and academically too formidable for most young Negroes. Southern Negro colleges still educate two-thirds of all Negro collegians, and Negro colleges will survive for years to come. And they have only one possible direction...
Breaking the circle is all the harder because in one sense academic poverty is an attraction. Negro students do not flock to integrated campuses even when legally free to do so. They know the competition and avoid it. Nothing would please the better colleges more than first-rate competition on their own campuses. Last week they heartily agreed with new President William H. McEniry Jr. of the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools as he laid out the urgent job for Negro colleges. "You and only you," said he, "are in a position to speak to millions of Negroes...
...church's worldwide hierarchy will not only serve to strengthen the bonds of unity in faith, worship and government, but will also be a means of attracting the attention of countless believers in Christ and move them to come round 'the Great Shepherd of the Flock...
...example, if something suspicious is picked up on a radar screen, although it may be only a "flock of geese," a country must act on the assumption that the enemy is attacking, and launch its own offensive...
Caviar Every Day. Another lure is a flock of door prizes that recently included a purebred horse and a white Fiat. At his big January ball, Weigt announced last week, a $25,000 hunk of Italian Riviera will be given as a prize. Less successful was his plan to solve the servant problem by auctioning off a maid; it was abandoned after critical comment from a Bavarian radio commentator. Shrugs Weigt: "Servant problems are all the wives ever talk about in this place. All the men talk about is how to get out for an evening without their wives...