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...take an unlisted telephone number, is the latest addition to an honor roll without precedent in U.S. legal annals. In the wake of its desegregation decision of 1954, the Supreme Court empowered Federal District judges to set the timing of "all deliberate speed," to approve or veto school-board desegregation plans, and to use every court power to see that integration was carried out. Many of the federal judges saddled with civil rights burdens were Southerners whose personal emotions ran contrary to the law they had to implement; many acted at the sacrifice of friendships and political hopes, but collectively...
...planned way it is the meeting ground between the growing, thriving city and the authentic U.S. legend of smalltown life. Says Sociologist Alvin Scaff, who lives in Los Angeles' suburban Claremont: "If you live in the city, you may be a good citizen and interest yourself in a school-board election, but it is seldom meaningful in human terms. In a suburb, the chances are you know the man who is running for the school board, and you vote for or against him with more understanding." Says Don C. Peters, president of Pittsburgh's Mellon-Stuart Co. (construction...
...difficulty was not the program itself--educationally it "worked well," according to Dr. L. M. Wilson, superintendent of schools in Aliquippa at the time. But parental opposition to the staggered vacations and to summer work was overwhelming. Wilson explained that the school-board had "promised" to return to the old program when sufficient money was available, but strong community pressure was an important factor...
...ahead for advanced work in languages, music, mathematics. Such a pushing program needed a keen staff and close community support. A brush-topped joiner and prizefight buff, Brain got both. "His ability to hire and keep good personnel has given Bellevue the pick of applicants," says Bellevue's school-board president...
...Florida. U.S. Judge Joseph Lieb ruled that a clutch of state school-segregation laws were unconstitutional. But instead of ordering schools directly to accept Negro applicants, Minnesota-born Judge Lieb called attention to the state pupil-placement laws, which give assignment authority to local school boards. Until pupil-placement laws are challenged and declared unconstitutional, said he, Negro applicants will have to abide by school-board assignments...