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...games is over," said the chief of field operations of the U.S. Marshals Service. He was referring to Florida Governor Claude Kirk's week-long theater of defiance against the Federal Government. Kirk had refused to allow a court-ordered school busing plan to take effect in Manatee County. His resistance wilted overnight, however, when Federal District Judge Ben Krentzman finally lost patience, cited him for contempt and threatened to fine him $10,000 a day if he continued to obstruct the court order...
When busing got under way last week, there were no incidents, and attendance was almost normal. Yet resistance, fanned by Kirk's stand, still flickered. Ignoring the fact that some children had been bused up to 40 miles before the court order, many parents claimed it was busing, not integration, that they were resisting. "It's like trucking a bunch of cattle around in those buses," complained Linda Stanky, one of the mothers. Pickets appeared in front of school offices, waving signs: "Give us better minds and less mileage" and "The seat of learning...
...lights, of course, Kirk was shrewdly playing on the ambiguities in the Administration's policy on desegregation. In defying the courts, he claimed to be acting in the spirit of Nixon's March 24 statement-and who was to say he was not? Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Robert Finch last week sought to "clarify" the President's position by insisting that there would be "no backward motion" in integration, and he predicted that the number of black students in classes with whites (now 1,200,000) would double next fall. Yet even as Finch spoke...
...crisis, Severn applied the soothing humor and tough pragmatism that have earned him wide respect as a labor arbitrator and mediator in disputes involving airline pilots, firemen, policemen, teachers and merchant mariners. As chairman of the faculty executive committee, he helped ease Columbia's overly remote president, Grayson Kirk, into retirement. Sovern was also chief salesman for the new University Senate, a student-faculty-alumni-administration body designed to democratize the process of decision making. "We were able to demonstrate what the radicals deny-that there is a wide range of solutions to any problem," says Sovern. "The most...
...International Leisure Corp., which is controlled by Millionaire Kirk Kerkorian, bought the Flamingo and built the 1,519-bedroom International Hotel. Earnings more than doubled last year to $6.5 million, but the company's stock plummeted from a 1969 high of 64 to last week's 13¾.* Dragged down in part by the dismal image shared by many casino-owning companies, it also had troubles with the SEC. Last year International Leisure needed audited financial statements going back to 1964 for a proposed stock offering. Company officers said that they could not supply the figures because...