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...more prevalent danger is that relatively affluent whites will increasingly abandon the public schools to the blacks and poor whites. There are possibly 300 white academies ready to open or reopen in Georgia, 100 in Mississippi, at least one in most of the counties of South Carolina. Many communities are reducing their tax support of public schools so that taxpayers can better afford private tuition. "The cause of public education in Mississippi is at the lowest point since the schools started in 1870," warns R.W. Griffith, Mississippi's assistant superintendent of public education. "It's a pathetic situation...
...TRUST DICK. For a time, Nixon's go-slow policies on school desegregation made Thurmond look good back home. But now he felt betrayed. The Administration was filing desegregation suits, threatening to send federal lawyers into the South in September to pressure local officials as schools reopen, and insisting that private academies cannot exclude blacks and still qualify for tax exemption. How could Dick do that...
Saks will be closed at least until August second for repairs. There is some question as to whether it will reopen at all. "Why does Saks need a store in Cambridge?" asks Jacobs. "They don't make much money here, nothing at all like New York. If stores like that close we'll end up like upper Putnam Avenue...
...hostel will be open through the entire summer, untli Labor Day. The Iroquois Club is expected to reopen next fall...
...Southern strategy," the new hardline tactics add up to a welcome drive to end de jure segregation in the South. Elliot Richardson, sworn in last week as Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, and Robert Finch, his predecessor, have vowed publicly that by the time Southern schools reopen in the fall, the great majority of school districts will be desegregated. That prediction now seems sound...