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There are reasons for this mania to escape from an institution which is the pride and joy of other U.S. cities and towns. While school-age hoodlums are the small minority of students in New York, their precocious propensity for vandalism, gang "rumbles." narcotics, sex orgies and extortion make them an eternal menace in many a school. Even in quieter districts, the public-school child is still gulped up by the world's most enormous* -and in many ways its most faceless and impersonal-educational system. He becomes simply one by this autumn's figures...
...Tokyo boasts a bigger public-school enrollment-1,200,000-although New York's public and private school total is 1arger, and the physical and financial assets of the municipal system far exceed those of the Japanese capital. Other big city enrollments: Moscow, 630,000; Greater London, 418.000; Chicago...
...five U.S. delegates to the eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. Howls of protest rose. Chief complaint: Byrnes is one of the South's best-known champions of race segregation; as governor, he pledged his administration to abandon South Carolina's public-school system if the Supreme Court outlawed segregation in the schools. The U.N.'s General Assembly contains many Asian and African delegates explosively sensitive on the subject of race. Sample protests in telegrams to the President...
...Bryant Conant made quite a stir as the aggressive champion of the comprehensive public high school. "A dual system [of schools]," said he in a speech in Boston, "serves and helps to maintain group cleavages." Last week another topflight Ivy Leaguer took an uncompromising position on the other side of the question. As things are going now, said Princeton's President Harold Dodds at a Loomis School ban quet, a single school system would be a national calamity. One reason: because the public-school system is not doing a good enough...
...George Venable Allen, 49, able Ambassador to Yugoslavia, to be Ambassador to India. Allen went into the foreign service in 1930, after a career as a North Carolina public-school principal and newspaperman (Asheville Times and Durham Herald-Sun), became Ambassador to Iran...