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Civil rights activists contend that as long as segregated housing patterns prevail, any meaningful and democratic integration of U.S. public schools must be achieved by bussing white and Negro children hither and yon. Critics fear that the net effect is a drop in educational quality, since such integrated classes inevitably tend to take the pace of the culturally backward slum kids. This fear, moreover, leads many white parents to move away or send their children to parochial and private schools, thus heightening segregation even more. Long after most goals of the Negro Revolution have been generally accepted, the pro-bussing...
Busoni did not live to see direction become destination. Worn out by half a century of continual concertizing, he died in 1924 at the age of 58. He was, in his own words, "a weak man, yet a stout wrestler, whom doubts drive hither and thither; master of thought, slave of instinct, exhausting all things, finding no answer." A Faustian figure...
Currie proposed government controls to avoid a wage-price spiral. He added that mechanized agriculture, compulsory primary education, national health programs, and public housing projects would insure "additional work and income from hither-to unemployed resources...
...with a reception attended by 1,200 members of the National Press Club and the Women's National Press Club. Meg and Tony did most of the asking. When a girl reporter told Meg that she worked for a national chain, the Princess caught on at once: "Dotted hither and yon, eh?" One chap answered Tony's query by saying he was retired. "I'm retired too," said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones-though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments. Tony interrogated every press photographer he could buttonhole about equipment and technique, and lost no opportunity...
Pear blossoms shaken by mad winds-hither and thither they're tossed; Unable to cling to their bough...