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...Berkeley, at least, all the dire predictions about the adverse effects of bus sing have not come true. Sullivan was warned that the program would turn Berkeley into a black city; instead, white enrollment in the schools actually rose during the past three years, reversing a 20-year trend. He says that this has happened because the schools provide "something exciting at the end of the bus ride" in the form of better education. He has introduced smaller classes, more guidance counselors for troubled students, sophisticated audio-visual aids. A study by the California legislature last year showed that Berkeley...
N.A.A.C.P. Executive Director Roy Wilkins said that the board was shocked by both "the tone and the substance" of Steel's assertions. "By belittling the decisions of the court," said Wilkins, "and especially by classifying past civil rights victories as symbolic rather than substantive, he cast aspersions on all previous legal efforts in civil rights cases...
...science museums. When he became director of his museum six years ago, he staged the kind of exhibit that would have' fascinated him as a boy. Called "What's Inside," it featured a cross section of a city street. Children entered through a sewer pipe, hunched past a maze of utility lines, climbed out through a manhole and examined the topside, with its parking meters, trolley tracks and working Volkswagen. Planned as a six-month exhibit, "What's Inside" was so popular that it ran for five years...
...almost always a nagging, disabling disease, with some symptoms that persist for many months. But in a few cases, perhaps three out of a thousand, it is a fulminating infection that throws the victim into a coma and may cause death within a few days. Only in the past four years has an effective treatment for this form of hepatitis been developed; one man who is walking proof of its value is Peace Corps Volunteer John M. Bayne...
...that urged bishops to discuss pastoral matters with their priests, the petitioners claimed that Lucey "has steadfastly refused even to acknowledge the existence" of the 160-member Priests' Association of the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Signers of the letter included 13 pastors, four monsignors and ten present or past officials of the local chancery. One of them, the Rev. John Klein, 29, said that he was quitting as vice chancellor of the archdiocese because, among other things, of "the present rigid, pyramid structure of church authority...