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...Westminster Abbey wedding with the boss's daughter (Millicent Martin), he hires an aging, aristocratic wastrel (Denholm Elliott) to guide him through a whirlwind curriculum of fashionable prejudices. "Say 'bloody' a lot," counsels Elliott. "Know a few dirty jokes about the Caesars." When tutor and pupil take aim at the Establishment in a series of daft vignettes-playing squash, touring Cambridge, or off on a jolly shoot-Nothing but the Best looks and sounds like superlative satire...
...report denied the usefulness of "widespread pupil shuffling" as a method of alleviating problems of de facto school segregation. "This would not, however, rule out such devices as enlarging school districts," said Marans. The group advocated that funds be devoted to improving the quality of all schools, regardless of the color of the students, rather than to bussing students from one district to another...
McGill cited figures to support his allegations. He said that seven of the southern states spent less than $300 per pupil yearly, compared with a national average...
...People see what they "need" to see. The pupil of the eye dilates on seeing pleasant things, contracts at distasteful things. The more ambiguous the view, the more it rouses preconceptions-as in the Rorschach test, for example. Seeing is so subjective that coins of the same size look bigger to poor children than to rich children. suggestible subjects: children aged seven to eight, girls and women, people with higher...
...York City's million-pupil school system was threatened early this week with a massive Negro boycott in protest against de facto segregated schools. Whether or not the boycott made its point, the nation's biggest school system seemed deeper than ever in the North's most difficult dilemma...