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...Jackson, Miss., to court arrest during a bus-terminal sit-in, Philip was called back by his superior, but the Josephites eventually learned to live with his fierce devotion to black dignity. His larger trouble began only after he was transferred North to teach at the Josephite seminary in Newburgh...
...conservative Newburgh, he dispatched teams of seminarians into the ghettos to investigate building-code violations. Worse, he had joined Daniel in protesting the 1965 escalation of the Viet Nam War; at one Manhattan rally, Daniel declared that in "such a war man stands outside the blessing of God ... in fact, under his curse." Philip did not improve his reputation in Newburgh when, in an address before a community group, he linked racism and the Viet Nam War. "Is it possible for us to be vicious, brutal, immoral and violent at home and be fair, judicious, beneficent and idealistic abroad...
...Mike Robinson complained: "Now that teachers are being shifted around, we black students are afraid of losing teachers we have begun to trust and respect. We had six black teachers removed. It was a court order, so they just went." Most of the fifth-graders in an overwhelmingly black Newburgh, N.Y., school told an NBC interviewer last week that they were against integration and did not want to be bused to an integrated school, partly out of fear that the whites would outnumber them and try to boss them around. James Stewart spoke succinctly of his classmates' feelings: "Some...
...Dental Health Week. It was the 25th anniversary of the world's first test, in Grand Rapids, of an attempt to fluoridate water supplies so that children would need fewer fillings-and fewer extractions. The Grand Rapids program was soon followed by a similar test in Newburgh, N.Y. The results were checked against the dental decay rate of children in comparable cities without fluoridation: Muskegon, Mich., and Kingston...
...supplies, deposited by nature in the soils through which the waters flow. The value of man's imitating nature was soon apparent in the Grand Rapids experiment, which showed a dramatic reduction in the number of children's cavities (see chart). With that and similar proof from Newburgh, the campaign for nationwide fluoridation began. Despite diehard opposition, it has now progressed to the point where 43% of the total U.S. population has this anticavity protection...