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...teachers be let back into Ocean Hill when classes opened last month. He struck to win his point, then struck again when returning teachers were harassed by the black community. Dissatisfied, he said, with the city's guarantees for their safety, he struck yet a third time a fortnight ago. Nothing would end the impasse, he vowed, but the dismissal of the Ocean Hill board and Rhody McCoy, the local administrator-in other words, an effective end to the troublesome decentralization experiment. "This strike is not going to be broken," Shanker said last week. "We're going...
...upcoming Olympics (see SPORT) as a historic opportunity for official embarrassment. For his part, dedicated, aloof President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz grimly vowed "to do whatever is our duty, however far we are obliged to go," to protect his country's good name and, presumably, the Olympics tourist trade. Fortnight ago, he ordered the army into the National University's campus, violating a 40-year tradition of academic freedom from government interference...
Socialists, Too. Humphrey could take a modicum of cheer from some signs of Democratic reunion. Fortnight ago, most party leaders in Texas and State Assembly Speaker Jesse Unruh in California declined to appear with...
...North. The Communist supply lines and communications network have been improved enormously by feverish labor on the roads and trails through Laos, Cambodia and the underpopulated border provinces of South Viet Nam. Viet Cong terrorists recently murdered 476 civilians in two weeks, more than in any other fortnight this year...
...lungs. So, Stanford University's Dr. Norman E. Shumway Jr. suggested, it would be a good thing to transplant at least one lung, or a large part of it, along with a heart. Nine transplants of lungs, or lobes of lungs, have failed. The tenth, performed a fortnight ago by Dr. Arthur Beall of Dr. Michael DeBakey's team in Houston, was doing well last week...