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...separatism, existing only because white colleges would not admit black students. Dependent largely upon whites for financial survival, the schools have never been aggressive in attacking segregation. For officials of these colleges, "the result was usually self-contempt, born either from acceptance of the white view that Negroes were inferior or from disgust at having succumbed silently to an outrageous injustice, or from both." Their schools became "an ill-financed, ill-staffed caricature of white higher education...
...their decision, the judges noted that segregation had saddled the Negro community with "markedly inferior educational opportunities." More than 25% of the Negro high schools in Alabama are unaccredited, compared with 3.4% of the white schools. Moreover, Alabama's investment in school buildings and equipment is $607 for each white student, only $295 for every Negro pupil. The court order allows every student to enroll in the school of his choice starting next fall and implies that punitive action will be taken against state and school board officials who seek to evade the ruling. It also tosses...
...branding a person an "administrator" at Harvard may be consigning him--implicitly--to the ranks of the unacceptable or the inferior: if he is at Harvard and he is any good, why is he in the bureaucracy? The fact is that he may not be any good. There are dull people in the Harvard Administration, just like there are dull people on the Faculty and in the student body; many of them are satisfied with the repetition of their daily jobs and, moreover, probably perform well at them. Like most administrators. Monro can take the routine in hand and enjoyit...
...Unforgiven. In Salt Lake City, where he conferred with David McKay, head of the Mormon Church, Romney was at his forthright best. He attended an interfaith ministers' meeting and was fully prepared when the inevitable question arose about the inferior status of Negroes in the Mormon Church. "I was raised in the conviction that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution are divinely inspired documents of the Creator, and all mankind is the child of God with basic rights," he said. "I have fought to eliminate racial discrimination. I want to be judged on the basis of my actions...
...sizzling over the fact that the cheaper non-Spanish sherries ($1.30 to $2.50 a bottle, compared with $2 to $4) have taken over half of the large and lucrative British market, which the Jerez product once had all to itself. The low-price sip, sniff the Spaniards, is far inferior. Some of it comes from vineyards in South Africa, Australia and Cyprus. Some is made in Britain from imported grape juice, which is processed and sold under such labels as "British Sherry" and "South African Sherry...