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...Humphrey, Northern Negroes are holding back. "I've never heard so much cynicism about an election," says Nathan Wright, a leading organizer and observer of black militants. "Some are, perhaps, even cynical enough to vote for Wallace, on the theory that if this is what white America wants, let's help the issue come to the top." That may be an extreme possibility, but, as always, it is hard to say who speaks for U.S. Negroes. Moderates tend to agree with Whitney Young: "White liberals can indulge the privilege of not voting, but blacks can't. This...
...shrewd, ruthless, single-minded leader, Shanker demanded that all the union teachers be let back into Ocean Hill when classes opened last month. He struck to win his point, then struck again when returning teachers were harassed by the black community. Dissatisfied, he said, with the city's guarantees for their safety, he struck yet a third time a fortnight ago. Nothing would end the impasse, he vowed, but the dismissal of the Ocean Hill board and Rhody McCoy, the local administrator-in other words, an effective end to the troublesome decentralization experiment. "This strike is not going...
...district's mistrust of many veteran teachers is often unfair, if understandable. The menacing atmosphere of most slum schools is enough to cow even the most devoted teacher, who in any case is seldom equipped professionally to deal with the specialized problems of the deprived child-let alone the disturbed or disruptive student who is too often rejected as "uneducable...
...other major cities, the difficulty is one of reaching down. "The city is designed to shrink people," says Leonard Fein, associate director of the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Affairs, "so one doesn't feel plugged in, connected, part of a family. So at least then, let's resurrect the neighborhood, the community within the city. That's what decentralization is all about. It's not about schools. It's about neighborhood and plugging people in. I think John Lindsay knows that. I think Albert Shanker does...
John Lindsay is not a man to let his troubles get him down. Although a million pupils are out of school, firemen are on a "slowdown," and other public strikes threaten, New York's Mayor seemed as exuberant as ever last week. Returning from a television appearance, he met TIME Correspondent Lansing Lamont for an interview at Grade Mansion. Reported Lamont...