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...appeared at Chicago's Cook County Hospital in February and spread to Monrovia Community Hospital near Pasadena in April. This month it gained a foothold at the Queen of Angels Hospital in Los Angeles: pantsuits for nurses. With official sanction, 20 of the hospital's 400 nurses broke the ice by wearing the snappy new suits in the out-patient clinic, many more were planning to buy one ($14 for the A-shaped tunic, $8 for the pants). Some older nurses feel that the pantsuits look "unprofessional." But even they admit that because of all the leaning, reaching...
MARY D. CLARY Pasadena, Calif...
Slimmer of Hope. Even campuses where protest had been shunned in the past were stirred by the Cambodian action. Science-oriented Caltech experienced its first antiwar demonstration when about 250 students rallied to hear professors assail the new U.S. involvement. Some students marched into downtown Pasadena, urging residents to protest by mail to the White House. An angrier mood prevailed at the University of Maryland, where some 500 students charged into the campus Air Force ROTC building after the Nixon speech. They burned uniforms, smashed typewriters, threw files out of windows and caused at least $10,000 worth of damage...
...confusion caused by the Administration's ambivalence on integration is best demonstrated by the beleaguered community of Pasadena, Calif. It was one of the first non-Southern school districts to be sued by the Justice Department for deliberately perpetuating de facto segregation?school imbalances resulting from residential racial patterns. Federal Judge Manuel Real found that Pasadena had failed to carry out integration plans and must act to eliminate segregation. School officials risked community wrath by deciding not to appeal the decision. But School Superintendent Ralph Hornbeck is understandably irritated. "It seems impossible to meet the court's criteria without compulsory...
...some educators argue that integrated schools cut down hostility between black and white children, two Menninger Foundation researchers found in studying one high school that desegregation "sometimes leads to social segregation and to the solidification of racial stereotyping." Lawnie Taylor, president of a mainly black parents' organization in Pasadena, Calif., agrees. "Simply ethnic balancing of a school, mixing of bodies doesn't solve the problem," he says. "It often produces polarization." Where whites are in the majority, he adds, "cultures, pride and identities of other racial and ethnic groups, especially that of the black student, cannot survive...