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...tokenism; half of the 2,779 school districts in eleven Southern states are technically desegregated, but only 18% of the region's black students actually attend school with whites. But where it has been well tried, as in east Texas or northern Georgia, there has been relatively little friction after the initial cultural shock has worn off. Politicians are, however, again arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that of Alabama Superintendent of Education Ernest Stone is sorely needed. Says he: "If they'll let me keep the public...
...majority of blacks prefer to join whites now in those better white schools. The separatist path also has its illusions. Money still matters in education, and it still seems to follow whitey. In the long run, polarization may prove more destructive to race relations than the current incidence of friction in integrated schools. Blacks are emerging from white schools and colleges in increasing numbers, are often eagerly sought for good jobs, and want those advantages now. The selfhelp, go-it-alone tactic is a far slower and more difficult process...
...builders, David Saar and William Carson. said that the car would average between 50 and 70 miles per hour. The car. which cost $25.000. is equipped with speed-increasing and friction-reducing devices along with the standard STP sticker on the window...
Should black studies programs stress historical and cultural subjects or satisfy the militants' craving for "revolutionary relevance"? Who should control them, the students, the faculty or the administration? These now-familiar issues have troubled the new programs everywhere that they are offered (TIME, Jan. 26). In California alone, friction between administrators, faculty members and black students has resulted in the resignations of department chairmen at both the Los Angeles and Santa Barbara campuses of the University of California; President S. I. Hayakawa has been at constant odds with the department at San Francisco State and has been threatening...
Most meteors are reduced to dust by atmospheric friction, so any substantial surviving fragment is valuable...