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Since last June, the NAACP has advanced two proposals which, if acted upon, would reduce the segregation in the Boston schools. First, they ask that school district boundaries be redrawn and new schools located so that no more than fifty per cent of any school's pupils would be Negroes. They claim that even after such action, no child would live more than half a mile from the elementary school he would attend. Second, they have asked the School Committee to make it easier for a student to transfer from school to school...
...There were seven races in which Democratic and Republican incumbents faced one another because of redrawn district lines. In only one of them did a Republican lose. He was Pennsylvania's Ivor Fenton, a 24-year veteran, dean of the state's G.O.P. delegation. At 73, Fenton simply was not as articulate or as agile on the stump as Democrat George Rhodes, 64, a liberal who will be starting his 15th year in the House. The six Democrats sidelined by Republican incumbents were Massachusetts' Thomas Lane, North Carolina's Paul Kitchin, Kansas' J. Floyd Breeding...
...letter to the Historic Districts Committee, the University has requested that the boundary line on the Garden St. side of the Common be redrawn to include only 100 feet of land from the street. The proposed boundary encompasses 200 feet, but the site for the ed school's new plant is included in the extra 100 feet...
...probably tough-minded Education Minister Louis Joxe) will take office in Paris, but his Deputy Commissioner in Algiers itself will be a Moslem. (Reportedly, two prominent Moslems have already been sounded out about the job and have declined with terrified thanks.) The political map of Algeria is to be redrawn, converting the present departments into new, decentralized administrative areas that will make easy the partitioning of the land between Europeans and Moslems, should that become necessary. The explosive highlight of Stage I is slated to be a De Gaulle visit to Algeria next month "to acquaint and explain himself...
...million copies of horror comics sold on U.S. and Canadian newsstands every month will soon have a new "Dior Look." Under the new voluntary Comic Book Code adopted by the industry to avoid state and community censorship (TIME, Nov. 8), heroines have been redrawn with less obvious curves and more obvious clothes. Comic Book Censor Charles F. Murphy, a former New York City magistrate, announced last week that his staff has already ordered revisions of 5,656 drawings, 25% involving the "reduction of feminine curves to more natural dimensions." Other changes: witchlike villains with wiry hair and fanglike teeth have...