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...Convinced that a strong public school system is just as important to their children as it is to blacks, local white leaders began more than a month ago to prepare their city for the shock of final desegregation. A loosely knit committee of prominent whites met with the city's whites, urging them to support the public schools rather than abandon them. School administrators worked through the Christmas holiday to shift classrooms and equipment, and persuaded all of the system's 186 teachers to stay on the job. Even stu dents joined in the effort to pre serve...
...time, at the eastern edge of Gallup, New Mexico, when the girl picked me up. It was about nine o'clock. Thursday morning, August 14. The girl driving the car looked about five feet tall, and she wore a leather jacket over a maroon-and-blue striped knit T-shirt, and a hemless mini-skirt made from cut-off corduroy jeans. She had a sharp face-rather pronounced cheekbones, triangular eyes, and a smail, sharp nose. Her blondish hair was uniformly short except for one long, very thin braid in back. There were two long-haired guys with...
Collins is the darling of tennis journalism, and he was making the rounds in style, resplendent in white duck trousers and a knit shirt. We had several minutes of light conversation, and he seemed to be fairly reasonable, Mrs. Garrett notwithstanding...
...afternoon his face broke into a broad smile. Taking advantage of his "townie" birth and Harvard affiliation, Hayes ran well throughout Cambridge-an unusual feat for a first time candidate in a city where elections, though run at-large, generally are decided by tight-knit neighborhood support...
Reaction to the essays was loud and expected. The Times Literary Supplement accused the authors of "prejudices that verged on the hysterical." The Manchester Guardian called them a "tightly knit bunch of righties." Many indignant teachers pointed to a 1967 government report showing that over the past two decades, eleven-year-olds have increased the rate at which they learn to read by more than 24%. Meanwhile, a new stress on writing and new math has livened up teaching throughout the country. The loudest reaction, perhaps, came from Education Secretary Edward Short who declared: "The publication of the Black Paper...