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...strike was a landmark in the unfolding history of the New York union's parent, the 75,000-member American Federation of Teachers. In cities across the country where teacher morale is low, the A.F.T. is outstripping its bigger "professional" rival, the 765,600-member National Education Association, which shuns strikes and collective bargaining. Last week's strike may well stiffen U.S. school boards against the union. But it did produce phalanxes of traditionally timid teachers mad enough to hit the bricks like miners and dockers...
Parochial schools enroll half the white pupils in New Orleans. After Rummel's order, segregationist Catholics considered transferring their children to public schools. But in a landmark decision last week, New Orleans' Federal District Judge J. Skelly Wright took a severe look at New Orleans' public schools, which still have admitted only twelve Negroes to six previously all-white schools. Judge Wright agreed with 102 Negro petitioners that the city school board is hardly desegregating "with all deliberate speed." Wright forbade the board from further use of the Louisiana pupil-placement law, and ordered desegregation...
Malta is a special landmark in Christian history,* and the Roman Catholic hierarchy has always played a weighty role in the island's affairs (present population: 330,000, of whom 98% are Catholic). But in recent times, as last week's elections again demonstrated, the church's influence has been challenged sharply by the Maltese Labor Party and its leader, Dom Mintoff, a Rhodes scholar who once studied for the priesthood...
...place burned to the ground. Sorin concluded that the Mother of God had "to show me that my vision was too narrow." In four months flat, Sorin and the faculty raised the huge main building that still stands, topped with the golden dome that is Notre Dame's landmark. The school pushed on with its work, for many years under the Rev. William Corby, whose campus statue has long tagged him as "Fair Catch" Corby...
Secretary Goldberg happily hailed the contract as "a landmark" in the settlement of labor issues raised by mechanization and automation, but it was at best a landmark of questionable value. The chiefs of the other railroad brotherhoods immediately vowed to seek similar concessions, and the precedent was sure to be noted with avid interest in other industries where automation is eliminating jobs...