Word: schoolchildren
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice before, cantankerous old (88) U.S. District Judge William H. Atwell had refused to order school integration in Dallas-and twice before he had been reversed by higher courts. Last week the suit brought by parents of 23 Negro schoolchildren came before Judge Atwell again. This time the judge had little choice. "It is difficult for me to approve this order," said he, "but this is a land of law and it is my duty to do what I have been ordered to do by a higher court." Result: the Dallas public schools, with 86,000 white and 17.000 Negro...
Patriotism In. Last week conservative old (70) Education Minister To Matsunaga was in the midst of an all-out campaign to correct the faults of the occupation-planted system. Said he: "Twenty million schoolchildren taking the compulsory education course in primary and junior high schools know no Japanese history and are taught no morals. My primary aim is to implant patriotic sentiments in schoolchildren's hearts." The J.T.U. promptly protested that "Matsunaga wants to march the children back to the dark, feudal past." Even the anti-Communist Japan Federation of Teachers' Unions (20,000 members) warned against "reactionary...
...statement which the Senator has just made ... I should think he would be utterly ashamed of himself, being over 21 years of age, and a capable man who has made a great success in business-I do not know how many millions-to say publicly, in the presence of schoolchildren and others in the galleries, that the President of the U.S. has no brains...
...Tank trucks make shuttle runs between the Titusville railroad sidings and the Cape, carefully hauling highly volatile liquid oxygen for rocket fuel. It is a land of piercing shrieks and thunderous roars, and when the shrieks and the roars combine in one nerve-racking racket, housewives, office workers and schoolchildren rush outdoors to watch another missile on the way, and to compare notes on its performance...
Plus ça Change ... In Paris, a nationwide survey among French schoolchildren revealed that their No. 1 hero is still Napoleon...