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...Eighty percent or more of Negro parents would permit their child to marry a white person if the romance had already developed without their knowledge," said the sociologists, "but there is no evidence of a desire for miscegenation, or even interest in promoting it, except among a very tiny minority...
...Forty-eight percent of the Negroes said they wanted to live in neighborhoods where whites and Negroes were about equal in number; 25% said they didn't care one way or another; 22% wanted to live in neighborhoods that were predominantly or wholly Negro; and 5% said they would prefer to live apart from other Negroes...
About a quarter of the volunteers are expected to work on voter registration projects, with 45 percent working in freedom schools. COFO also hopes to provide 100 workers in community centers, 100 lawyers and 10C clergymen...
According to the report, Harvard is the largest stockholder in Middle South Utilities, Inc., a holding company which owns four major power companies in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The University owns $9,939,074 worth of common stock, or about 1.7 percent of the total shares issued. Furthermore, Harvard owns 1815 shares of preferred stock in Mississippi Power and Light, Middle South's Mississippi subsidiary...
...Council. At one time, Labourites complained that the Tories had gerrymandered the GLC against them. But two weeks ago Labour walked off with 64 of 100 seats. Labour strength held up solidly in all parts of Greater London. Even middle class suburbs moved strongly to the left. The seven percent swing from Conservative to Labour, if repeated in the general election, would give Labour a margin of more than one hundred seats in the next Parliament...