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Ford's record on civil rights legislation is mixed; he has supported most major reform bills on the floor but only after first voting to emasculate them. He has long opposed the busing of schoolchildren to attain racial balance, a move that sits well with his Grand Rapids constituents but has earned him the hostility of most major civil rights leaders...
Unhappily, Shakespeare, like other natural resources, has suffered from erosion. Many of his phrases have been forced down the throats of schoolchildren for generations, until at last they have become weary commonplaces of the English tongue. From star-cross'd lovers to the rose that by any name would smell as sweet -all these have become bromides. One can sometimes sympathize with the tired businessman who refuses to see any more Shakespearean productions because they are too full of quotations...
Bloody Victims. Last week it was invoked again with horrifying consequences. Three Palestinian guerrillas crossed over the Israeli border from Lebanon, took 85 teen-age schoolchildren hostage in a daylong drama and murdered 26 Israelis before they themselves were slain. Next day Israeli jets retaliated with deliberate strikes against Palestinian refugee camps and commando bases in Lebanon. Their bombs and rockets left 50 people dead and more than 200 wounded...
...Doctors have long been puzzled about the cause of primary dyslexia, a common learning disorder that afflicts between 2% and 5% of all U.S. schoolchildren with average or superior intelligence, and interferes with their ability to read. Most researchers assume that the root of the problem is in the cortex, site of the brain centers involved with thinking and learning. But two New York City doctors offer a different explanation-one that could lead to earlier diagnosis of this disorder...
This proposed amendment would absolutely prohibit any court and any government agency from assigning schoolchildren to or requiring them to attend a particular school on account of race, creed, or color. It would constitute, in effect, a supporting provision in the Constitution for the true interpretation of the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, namely, that government is forbidden to use race, creed, or color in connection with its official policies and programs...