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Back in 1855, Boston became the first major U.S. city to outlaw school segregation. Today, about 30 of its 190 schools are de facto segregated-85% or more Negro. Although Negroes complain loudly of inequities, the school committee is uninterested-and it hard ly has to care. In last week's primary, despite intense Negro campaigning, Boston's heavily Irish Catholic voters gave the incumbent committeemen such a whopping plurality that the same old policy seems inevitable...
...Entirely Satisfied." The Foreign Relations Committee, which had earlier backed the treaty with a resounding 16-1 approval, issued a 30-page synopsis of testimony by 44 witnesses. In answer to a question raised by former President Eisenhower about whether the treaty would outlaw U.S. use of atomic weapons in a war, the report said: "The Senate should be assured that the committee is entirely satisfied that the treaty in no way impairs the authority of the Commander in Chief in time of crisis to employ whatever weapons he judges the situation may require...
...Review set about de-mything the most admired sneaks of them all, Robin Hood and his merry men. "Friar Tuck is certainly no example of how a High Churchman should behave," sniffed the Review. Maid Marian was "certainly no 'Maid.' " As for Robin, he was simply "an outlaw who had deserted his lawful wife for fun and games in the greenwood with Marian...
...does not prohibit, the nuclear arms race. While it does not prohibit the United States and the Soviet Union from engaging in all nuclear tests, it will radically limit the testing in which both nations would otherwise engage. While it will not end the threat of nuclear war or outlaw the use of nuclear weapons, it can reduce world tensions, open a way to further agreements and thereby help to ease the threat of war. While it cannot wholly prevent the spread of nuclear arms to nations not now possessing them, it prohibits assistance to testing in these environments...
...Jane keeps busy running the Women's Adoption International Fund (WAIF), which has placed 11,000 homeless children since she founded it in 1954. But once in a while she slips back into harness. And she has not lost much of the old (38-24-36) Outlaw oomph. Poured into a gown for a three-week engagement in Las Vegas with Singers Connie Haines and Beryl Davis, she found it all choked up, and grabbed a scissors. "I just cut it to a decent V," she murmured. "What was cheesecake in The Outlaw days is like a Mother Hubbard...