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THOMAS JEFFERSON, the 2nd governor of Virginia, who ranked the education of the common people "above all things," proposed the nation's first public-school system in 1779. Last week James Lindsay Almond, 66th in the line of Virginia's Governors, who ranks segregation of the races above all things, was ready to preside over the dissolution of the school system which Jefferson established. For a close study of the motives that led James Lindsay Almond to the point of ending what Thomas Jefferson started and the complex legal strategy he was using, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS, "The Gravest...
...reasons for his new look, Ashmore explained that "deterioration in public opinion" could only result in irreparable damage to the public-school system. "I was trying," he said, "to head off a showdown between the state and federal governments-because no one could win it. They can use force to bring about integration, but if they do, it will require force of such degree that it will disrupt public education for a long time to come. I guess what I'm saying is that I see this as a dead...
...decision of the U.S. Supreme Court last week singled out Virginia as a likely setting for next fall's major battle in the war of public-school desegregation. The court refused to review an order from a U.S. District Court judge compelling the Arlington County school board to admit to white schools the Negro students who have applied in a test case; Charlottesville, Norfolk and Newport News face similar orders. The result is to pit the power of the federal courts against the elaborate machinery of "massive resistance" enacted in 1956 and 1957 by the Virginia legislature under...
Wilson writes not so much with a pen as with the needle of a tattoo artist who wants to inscribe "no" on Britannia's forehead. In After the Show, a well-illusioned young public-school type tries to be chivalrous toward a tawdry young girl, only to find that she scarcely knows what he is getting at; his illusions are shattered when she puts an Elvis Presley record on her gramophone. In More Friend Than Lodger, Wilson plots a triangle, not only of marital infidelity but of social insecurity, involving a stuffy publisher, his disarmingly bitchy wife...
...there are hours each week of concerts, lectures and forums. Says one KUHT official: "We still hear 'Who will watch ETV when I Love Lucy is on?' More people watched a forum on education on KUHT one Monday night than could have been crowded into all the public-school auditoriums in Houston. And they could have seen Robert Montgomery or Lawrence Welk instead...