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Psyched Up. The President caught it from the other side. The U.S. Civil Rights Commission, headed by the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, jumped on Nixon for demanding that busing be held to the legal minimum. "What the nation needed," said the commissioners, "was a call for the immediate elimination of the dual school system and for support of all those school officials who are forthrightly carrying out their legal obligations. Unfortunately, the President's statement almost certainly will have the opposite effect." One embittered HEW staffer conceded that the school officials "are more confused now," adding, "they...
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...Government's suit was well timed; it was announced 24 hours before George Romney, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, arrived to testify before Father Hesburgh's commission. Under considerable fire from Hesburgh, who admits to skepticism about the Administration's zeal, Romney maintained that it would be HUD's policy to grant housing funds only to communities that are willing to accept housing projects for the poor. The Federal Government, however, will not force low-income housing on anyone. As one Administration official put it: "We're not swinging a big stick...
...justice created by the landmark civil rights legislation of the '60s. That was the gist of a report issued seven months ago by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Last week the commission announced the results of a Government-wide progress check. Said the commission chairman, the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame: While much remains to be done, "the dinosaur has finally opened...
Mellowed cheese, such as Limburger, has gastronomical possibilities. Mellowed presidents, however, such as Notre Dame's Father Theodore Hesburgh [Feb. 15], are too soft and ripe for the palates of many Catholic parents...