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Democrat for Hoover. Lawrence, whose column runs in 275 dailies, is a staunch champion of states' rights who has relentlessly criticized the Administration for pushing public-school integration, which he calls "forced association." He has also differed with Eisenhower over fiscal policy, arguing that the Administration's unwillingness to be tough with "labor monopolies" has brought on inflation. A Virginia Democrat (Fairfax County), Lawrence calls himself a "liberal conservative," has voted for every G.O.P. presidential candidate since he supported Hoover in 1932. He is considered a bellwether of the far right, but, while many of his views...
...voters and concealment of information about times and places of registration were branded "political demagoguery in its worst form." Churchgoers were reminded that "the Christian faith has never countenanced racial discrimination," and that "the supreme law of the land requires that it no longer be practiced in the public-school system. Therefore every member of the assembly is urged to work in his own community for an honest and durable adjustment...
...tartest critics of the life-adjustment and how-to-get-along kind of education being dished up by some of the nation's schools and teachers' colleges. Last week his horrible example was a 395-page teachers' manual published by the Chicago public-school system and put together by Paul R. Pierce, now a professor of education at Purdue. The manual bears the formidable title Source Materials of the Educational Program: A Guidebook of Living and Learning Experiences. In the six years it took to produce it, no less than 100 people contributed...
...Southern cities that have ended segregation in their public schools, none have attracted more attention-or produced more controversy-than the nation's capital. Last December a House subcommittee headed by Georgia's James Davis declared that integration had "seriously damaged-the public-school system," and recommended that it be stopped. Last week a more reasonable judgment came from Washington's Assistant School Superintendent Carl F. Hansen. Integration, says he in a study published by B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League, has been nothing less than a "miracle of social adjustment...
...extra cramming that a prep school offers can no longer get the dullard through. Furthermore, the top private colleges have become increasingly less parochial in their search for students. Though swamped by applications, they still send out recruiters to schools all over the U.S. They want not only a bright student body, but a broad one; and wealth and background are less and less a factor. In 1910 only 10% of the men who applied for Harvard asked for scholarship aid; now 50% do. In 1947 the ratio of private-to public-school graduates at Yale was three...