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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First class of ten boys and twelve girls was chosen for brains and maturity rather than papa's ability to pay (five students have full scholarships). Half are high school seniors, will get full credit for the year. The rest are recent high school graduates, may get college credit. The curriculum: English composition, biology, social science, French, all used as practical tools. The biology course, for example, focuses on the world's food, health, and population problems. "We're not trying to make experts," says Jaeger. "There is nothing so obnoxious as a 17-year-old expert...
...District Judge Frank A. Hooper to present an acceptable integration plan (TIME, June 15), the board delivered last week on schedule. Proposed: a pupil-placement plan patterned on the Alabama law, which the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled constitutional. If Judge Hooper accepts, Atlanta's 95,000 public-school students (40% Negro) will be integrated a class at a time from the twelfth grade down-a twelve-year process...
...reality collides with another: Atlanta may face an even worse segregation crisis than Little Rock's. Under Georgia law, integration in a single school automatically shuts down the entire local system; nonfederal funds are cut off. Obvious solution is amending the law to allow integration in Atlanta alone. But Georgia's back-country state legislators, who regard Atlanta as a big-city Gomorrah, are in no mood for compromise. Even if rabidly segregationist Governor S. Ernest Vandiver wished to ease matters, he left himself no room last week. Said he: "The people of Georgia overwhelmingly elected me Governor...
Vandiver's actions should speak softer than his words. He can close Atlanta's schools for breaking the state segregation law, but Atlantans furnish 30% of the state's entire tax revenue, and they would scarcely relish paying to educate other Georgia children while their own are barred from school. If one Atlantan proved in federal court that he was being deprived of equal protection under the law, the U.S. could order the city's schools reopened-or all Georgia schools closed down. This might even move the state legislature to give Atlanta local option. Atlantans...
...what everybody has suspected for some time-that their teen-age audience has begun to walk out on them. The popularity of rock 'n' roll began to slack off about a year ago, and stations that once blared Splish Splash, Dream Lover, Hey, Little Girl and High School Sweater have started turning to less frenzied numbers such as Delia Reese's Don't You Know and Johnny Mathis' Misty, plus the effusions of such reformed rockers as Paul Anka, Bobby Darin, Brook Benton. Back into pop records went the sound of shimmering strings, down went...