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...Gotcha. His ground well prepared in advance, Subcommittee Counsel William E. Gerber of Memphis, a tough-looking, cigar-chewing product of the Crump machine, started digging for the kind of pay dirt that makes headlines. Presenting President C. Melvin Sharpe of the District board of education with a stack of papers and statistics he had not had a chance to read, Gerber started firing leading questions (and got his witness so befuddled that he once stated he agreed with Gerber's "testimony"), finally pried out an admission that "present events indicate if we had been more moderate we would...
Diligently Gerber laid on the record the results of some citywide achievement tests (which he and his staff had broken down by race) given eighth-graders in October 1955. The comparative scores only confirmed a known fact: that socially depressed and inadequately educated Negro youngsters are still several grades behind their white contemporaries in educational adaptation and achievement. In the light of these facts, prodded Gerber, "your advice to other areas of the country would be to take it easy?" Replied Witness Sharpe quietly: "Yes." And is it not true, said Gerber, that proponents of integration were "all wrong" when...
Weil-Known Facts. What of the social problem? By week's end, teachers and principals had paraded before the subcommittee citing instances of student disorder and violence. Of each witness Gerber asked whether the number of pregnancies in their particular school had increased since integration (in many cases they had). He also extracted testimony about molestation of white girls, about thefts and fights. But not all the testimony bolstered the subcommittee's thesis that integration is a proven failure. After Hugh Smith, white principal of the formerly all-white Jefferson Junior High School (now 55% Negro) had testified...
...were in town for a Gerber Baby Foods convention...
...exposing the realistic prospects for harnessing the nuclear horses, Woodbury has unfortunately chosen to write in bite-sized sentences of annoying simplicity. But if the book is as pre-digested as Gerber's baby-food, it presents some sobering facts about adult dreams: atomic autos, helicopters, and railroad trains. Men who contemplate their future autos probably give their atomic Ford the mental shape of a Thunderbird. Actually, as Woodbury points out, any atomic car would have to carry fifty tons of metal shielding, giving the auto the shape and price of a Stanley Steamer...