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With cool detachment, Northerners often view school segregation as a disease confined to the distant South. Yet many a Northern city is undergoing a vast Negro influx, a consequent white flight to the suburbs. With the newcomers forced into black-belt housing, de facto segregation prevails in urban public schools throughout the North. So goes the pattern in Chicago, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia-a steady proliferation of conditions contrary to the spirit of the U.S. Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal...
...Willem de Kooning, by Thomas B. Hess, discusses De Kooning's harsh, fast, and fluorescent brand of abstract expressionism in elaborately sophisticated terms, is occasionally apt, often provocative...
Britain's postwar prosperity has spawned a new breed of high-flying financiers: the take-over men. As they took over one company after another, the stocks often soared dizzily, and they raked in fat profits. The British government paid little attention to the raiders until the stocks controlled by one of the biggest, H. Jasper & Co., collapsed, and trading of the shares in 15 Jasper companies was stopped. Last week the British government launched a full-scale investigation into where Jasper got his money and how he built his empire...
...legends about him were legion. Dun & Bradstreet, so the story goes, once characterized him: "Estimated worth, $500,000,000. Pays bills promptly." Yet he had been broke so often, he once quipped, that "I thought it was habit forming." Always on the go, he kept three sets of suitcases in his two-room suite at the Fort Worth Club, packed with clothes for three different climates-hot, cold and medium...
Folksy, derrick-sized Sid Williams Richardson, unlike some of his fellow Texas wheeler-dealers, never hunted publicity, often quoted one of his favorite maxims: "You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'!" His dry, country humor and his ability to translate a complex business or political situation into plain horse sense made him a number of friends, but never found him a wife. When needled about his bachelorhood, Richardson explained his private theory about life: "Do right and fear no man; don't write and fear no woman. They're all wantin...