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...William Henry (The Purple Land) Hudson called the presidential chair a "throne of human skulls." But in modern Uruguay, Latin America's most solicitous welfare state, the office of President no longer exists; its power has been diffused in a nine-man federal council on the Swiss model. Public-school children wear an egalitarian uniform of white smock and blue Windsor tie. The state pensions citizens off at 60. Even the rich get a break: Uruguay, an anomaly among welfare states, manages to get along without a personal income...
...they been in another profession, the actions of Mary Schoenheit, 47, of Centertown, Mo. , and William Cheney, 35, of Eldon, Mo., might not have caused much stir. But Mrs. Schoenheit was formerly a public-school teacher in Illinois, and Cheney now teaches at the Eldon high school. This fall they independently decided to keep their seven-year-old daughters out of school and teach them at home. Reason: both felt that the local public schools are not doing a good enough...
...sentenced to ten days in jail and fined $5 for willfully refusing to enter her daughter in the public school. After three hours she surrendered, but once released, decided to appeal her case and keep Mary out of school until the circuit court takes action. Meanwhile, Missouri's other rebel also still had his daughter at home. Unlike Mrs. Schoenheit, William Cheney has a Missouri certificate to teach, and Missouri law requires only that a child receive the equivalent of a public-school education. Unless the authorities find that Steffanie is not getting that education, Cheney can have...
...public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings that would probably take at least two years to get to the U.S. Supreme Court. But what if the bill were then declared unconstitutional? In that case Virginia would simply go on to the next bill on its list. ¶The "police powers'" bill declares that the state must invoke its police powers to preserve the public peace. Integration is automatically a threat to the peace; ergo, any school permitting...
...races in a classroom. It is the creation of good human relations throughout the community." A native of Alabama (and a cousin of Dr. Oliver C. Carmichael, president of the University of Alabama, where the Autherine Lucy riots occurred), Superintendent Carmichael had climbed steadily but unspectacularly through Southern public-school ranks, arrived at Louisville convinced that segregation would soon be on the way out. To create the "climate of public opinion" for integration, he appointed joint Negro and white teachers' committees, held meetings of Negro and white principals. When the Supreme Court gave its decision...