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...biggest strike by public servants in U.S. history, more than half of New York City's 40,000 public-school teachers last week crippled the nation's biggest urban school system...
Many party regulars were willing to blame the President for at least part of the trouble. They are worried that he too often proposes legislation that he expects to be defeated-such as public-school aid, an urban affairs department at Cabinet level and a sweeping antirecession program-primarily to create campaign issues. To such men, Kennedy seems to be less interested in a bill's substance than in a label that appeals to voting blocs, such as the aged on medical care. More than one loyal Democrat is complaining that in his fascination for political maneuvering, Kennedy...
JIMMY RIDDLE, by Ian Brook (317 pp.; Putnam; $3.95) has as its hero the Walter Mitty ideal of every British public-school boy who grew up to be a frustrated colonial civil servant. Blond, bronzed and rugged, Jimmy Riddle is district commissioner of darkest Alabasa province in an unnamed British Colony in West Africa, a living legend to his fellow officers, and the sex-dreamboat of their wistful wives. In the end, Riddle turns against his own bumbling government, gets together with the Balabasa of Alabasa, the paramount chief and head of the Python Cult, and declares Alabasa an independent...
...continuing scramble over school aid, the House Education and Labor Committee approved an amendment to the National Defense Education Act that would allow $375 million in federal loans to private and parochial schools to build facilities for the teaching of mathematics, science, foreign languages and physical fitness. The bill then went to the balky House Rules Committee, which already had dangerously delayed the Administration's controversial public-school bill to spend $2,484,000,000 on construction and teachers' salaries. House leaders were fear ful of defeat for both bills as tempers rose over the traditionally touchy issues...
Ever since the public schools were closed, in June 1959, most of Prince Edward's 1,500 white students have been attending "private" schools, taught by former public-school teachers and financed by public funds, private contributions and tax rebates. The 1,700 Negro children were offered a similar, segregated system, but turned it down. Many of them attend privately run "training centers," but these offer little more than organized play; most of the county's Negro children have received no education for two years...