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...demonstration, more than 4,000 antibusing marchers toted American flags and a coffin inscribed DEATH OF FREEDOM as they massed outside the state capitol to hear City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong...
...that Holton, Virginia's first Republican Governor in 84 years, favors the court-ordered busing plans that are desegregating his state's schools. "We disapprove, dislike and deplore busing across town to achieve racial balance," he says. Despite his disapproval, however, he has urged all Virginians to obey court busing orders and, in the face of sometimes bitter opposition, has adamantly refused to seek a reversal in the Supreme Court. "I think it is unfortunate that we are losing the neighborhood school concept," he says, "but the community is going along with the new order. People are finding...
...children, in fact, are handling the situation as well as any. Though he could have sent them to any public school in Richmond-the Governor's mansion is excluded from busing plans because it is on state rather than city land-Holton has put his elder daughter, Tayloe, 15, into a high school that is 88% black; Anne, 13, and Woody, 12, attend a middle school 86% black, and Dwight, 5, a school that is 50% black. All seem to have thrived...
...Anne and Woody have specifically asked to ride the school bus (there is no school bus stop convenient to the downtown mansion for Tayloe and none at all for Dwight). As for five-year-old Dwight, "I don't think he knows the difference between black and white," Holton says. "Isn't that great...
Aside from being Governor-not necessarily an advantage for his children when they are in the classroom -Holton is different from most parents in his ebullient optimism. On his office In box is pasted the slogan, TODAY IS OPPORTUNITY DAY. DO SOMETHING, and twelve-year-old Woody is awakened by his father each morning with the call, "It's opportunity time." His wife Jinks is also enthusiastic, and is trying to get more black parents into the schools' P.T.A.s. In the same situation, other parents and other children might not have had the same happy experience. Still, when...