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...seems for the moment to be the most effective and efficient method of providing minority groups with equal opportunities in education. No one?save possibly school-bus manufacturers???is in favor of "busing for the sake of busing," the chimera that Richard Nixon belabors. Blacks, after all, have as strong a sense of neighborhood schools as whites do. But as Nicholas Hood, a black city councilman in Detroit, puts it: "It's pragmatic. We don't have any desire to be close to white people just for the sake of being close to white people. We want the same thing...
Unprecedented, this ruling whipped up a squall of protest. The Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce called in William Patterson MacCracken Jr., chairman of its legal committee, demanded a hearing before the board. There was talk of a test case in court. Manufacturers???particularly of seaplanes and amphibians?were incredulous. Their whole appeal to the private flyer, upon whom they depend for much of their business, is based on the inducement of flying between city and vacation camp where lakes furnish easy, safe landing places without cost. Such lakes abound in New Jersey...
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