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...control pollution of the Mississippi River. Currently, 72 sewers in the St. Louis area pour 300 million gallons of raw sewage into the river every day. After years of talk, nearly every important civic organization in the city joined the drive to clean up the Mississippi; 104,000 public-school children carried home pamphlets explaining the bond issue. When completed in 1967, the new system will funnel wastes through a vast labyrinth of pipes into two sewage-disposal plants...
...Kitten," "Bouncer" and "Puss" (Wilde's was "Hosky"). Wilde's active homosexualism is not thought to have begun until years later; nothing is to be inferred from cute nicknames or cuddly phrases beyond the surrogate sexuality common to young upper-class British males in Victorian times. The public-school youth of those years lived a womanless life from the time he left the nursery till he was ready to marry, and Wilde was merely one side of the Victorian coin whose obverse was that ascetic, womanless hero, General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon...
...counties, visited some 130 towns he had never seen before, and is eager to draw Rhodes into any sort of head-on clash. Playing the role of challenger rather than incumbent, he has listed 32 questions that he wants Rhodes to answer. Example: "Will you support public-school education at existing state levels, lower levels, or higher levels?" Complains Di Salle: "Ordinarily it is the incumbent who opposes debates, so as not to give the challenger exposure. I want to give Rhodes exposure...
Negro leaders charge that this condition is heightened by deliberate gerrymandering of school district lines. The effect is a steady proliferation of conditions bearing out the Supreme Court's 1954 ruling that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." Until recently. Northern school administrators held fast to the neighborhood-school tradition. Last year they got strong support from onetime Harvard President James B. Conant, who argued that upgrading Negro schools where they are (mainly by expanding vocational education) is preferable to "token integration by transporting pupils across attendance lines." Then came the case of New Rochelle, N.Y.-a Northern community...
...exam-for parents, not children. Sample: "Do you believe it right that your child be spanked at school if he does wrong?" A "no" gets a fast rejection from Fuller, whose favorite cure for errants is whacking a child's outstretched palm with a ruler. Fuller's school is so besieged with applicants that he accepts only one out of ten. He now plans a new $100,000 school for 200 students. His current parents-doctors, lawyers, businessmen, two public-school teachers, a Democratic state representative-are all apparently delighted that Fuller is turning out four-year-olds...