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Advised that integration was impossible, angry Negro leaders demanded complete control over I.S. 201 (which teaches Grades 5 through 8). "We want a black principal and black teachers for our black children," one mother shouted through a loudspeaker outside the school. On opening day, other, quieter Negro mothers led their children to the school and were turned back by Negro pickets. School Superintendent Bernard Donovan compromised, agreed that a neighborhood council could "screen" school personnel, even though the city school board cannot legally delegate its hiring and firing powers to laymen...
...Battle of Algeria, Gillo Pontecorvo's earnest, overlong semi-documentary about the bitter struggle for Algerian independence, impressed the judges so much that they awarded it the festival's Gold Lion, even as it outraged the touchy French. Fahrenheit 451 earned quieter but more general appreciation. Directed by France's gifted Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim) and blessed by the presence in the leads of Julie Christie and Oskar Werner, Fahrenheit is a Ray Bradbury story that takes a disturbing look at a future world in which the printed word is forbidden and every last book...
...engaged most spectacularly with the Viet Cong or North Vietnamese regulars in the northern half of the country, the daily headlines tend to overlook another sprawling sector of the war: the Mekong Delta below Saigon. In terms of bullets fired and casualties recorded, the Delta is a good deal quieter than it was two years ago. But it has hardly lost its importance...
...miles of Indian territory, share neither borders nor cultures. West Pakistan is Middle Eastern, hot and dry in climate, puritanical in morals, warlike in manners, and multilingual. East Pakistan smacks of the Orient, with its hot and moist climate, its lush, green fields, its smaller and generally quieter people, and its lilting singsong language, Bengali. East Pakistanis complain that fully 70% of the country's civil servants and 90% of the army are recruited in West Pakistan, though East Pakistan accounts for 55% of the whole country's population...
...more profitably as a second lieutenant than as a private. The possibility of schedules and regimentation doesn't seem to bother them. After two years of standing at attention, shuffling forms and memoranda, and perhaps fighting a war, many of them will return to grad school and to the quieter oblivion of the lecture hall...