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...Little Bit Tense. The experts totted up the results. When the returns hit Park Forest mailboxes, the town exploded: 135 children had been flunked. Angry parents stormed the superintendent's office and school-board meetings. What, they wanted to know, had walking like a duck or hopping like a bunny to do with a child's maturity? One mother protested that her son had been rejected simply because he "was a little bit tense...
...result of the school-board elections in Milford, Del. last week, the area's most notorious citizen, White Supremacist Bryant Bowles of the N.A.A.W.P., learned just how effective all his demagoguery had been. One four-man slate, opposed by Bowles, had firmly announced that it would stand by whatever decision the U.S. Supreme Court makes on desegregating the schools. The other slate had flatly declared itself in favor of "continued segregation," willy-nilly. The winner: the second slate which got 7,647 votes to their opponents...
...settled with his wife and two daughters in 1951. There had ended his groping for roots. He built a simple, cedar-sided house among the madrona trees, opened an insurance agency in the business district. He was ending his second year in the unpaid and honored job of school-board chairman (supervising the island's three schools, with 52 teachers and 1,350 pupils) when the story of his Communist past broke...
...whistle was blown when a Detroit salesman and school-board member named Patrick Vincent McNamara (who in 1948 shook Detroit by calling fellow members of the city council "a lot of jerks") announced that he would run for the Democratic nomination for Senator. McNamara would never have taken that step if he thought his opponent would be Soapy Williams. Within a few hours, the word began to filter through political channels: Williams, who hopes to see his name on the Democratic national ticket in 1956, had decided to seek an unprecedented fourth term as governor. The Williams-blessed candidate...
...Houston, as elsewhere, "controversial" is quite a fighting word. Last year the city's schools banned their annual U.N. essay contest because, in Houston's eyes, the U.N. had become controversial. In 1951 a group of citizens barred Willard Goslin, former superintendent of schools in Pasadena (TIME, Nov. 27, 1950 et seq.), as a guest speaker ("a very controversial figure," said one school-board member, although he added: "I don't know anything about the man.") Last May, when able Deputy Superintendent Ebey's contract was up for renewal by the school board, he too became...