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...response, Agassiz leaders have indicated their willingness to negotiate with the University to arrive at a plan allowing Harvard to build but leaving schoolchildren a place to play and preserving the quiet residential character of the area...
More than 500 supporters of busing marched from Copley Square through downtown Boston yesterday, chanting "No more Kerrigan, no more Hicks, no more racists' rocks and bricks," and "Stop the racist attacks against black schoolchildren...
...sizzling 91° heat barely wrinkled the Prince of Wales' crisp Royal Navy whites as he arrived in Fiji to celebrate the islands' 100th anniversary of becoming a British colony and the fourth birthday of its independence. Robed officials crouched in ritualistic gestures of respect, schoolchildren lined the roads and waved, and a considerate, perhaps mischievous chieftain gave Prince Charles a bowl of kava, a very potent local brew. Later, at a reception held in Suva, Fiji's capital, a less formally attired Charles witnessed at close range still more of the island's fundamental splendors...
...NEWS from Boston's schools in the last two weeks--fraught though it has been with angry crowds' assaults on schoolchildren and racial brawls and infighting--is in the end a reason for hope. For it means that, perhaps for the first time in this country's history, the public school system of a large Northern city is going to be racially integrated in fact as well as in name. And it seems likely that the last two weeks' violence and terror will subside, as the violence and terror that accompanied the integration of Southern schools ten years...
...work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed out of their classrooms. What triggered the turmoil in West Virginia was not the usual labor dispute, but subject matter and language in public school textbooks that outraged the state's conservative Christian American Parents Association...