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...tenuous adjustments that America's poor have made to adapt to their circumstances, he can sense and has seen the trauma that accompanies any transformation in the order of things. The South Goes North is testament to such trauma. From cloistered universities, it is easy to support busing of schoolchildren; Coles has ridden the buses and knows busing is not an unadulterated good. Academic radicals support community organizing; Coles has talked to people in the communities and knows how firmly the existing order of things is ingrained in people and why change is difficult. In both examples he understands that...
...leaders in an unusual red-carpet sendoff, Nixon repeatedly poked officials jovially in the ribs, bent close to whisper remarks that newsmen could not overhear, laughed at the banter. Yet he was restrained as he described his mission's goal to some 8,000 spectators, including 1,500 schoolchildren bused into Washington for the occasion. "We must recognize that the government of the People's Republic of China and the Government of the United States have had great differences," Nixon said. "We will have differences in the future. But what we must do is to find...
...Beatitude Archbishop Makarios, 58, the bearded, black-robed spiritual and political leader of Cyprus, last week brought a splendid succession of personal tributes. Nicosia's schoolchildren left classes to march on the presidential palace and shout, "Don't give in, Makarios! We are with you." Moved by the cheers of another gathering of 5,000, the archbishop told them: "I am not alone because you, the people, have embraced me with your confidence...
Rickets and TB. To help finance such plans, Mrs. Thatcher undertook her most furiously criticized venture. At a saving of $99 million, she increased the price of school lunches by one-third and abolished free milk rations for some 3.5 million primary schoolchildren. One independent research group promptly charged that the abolition of free milk would cause the number of children with a calcium deficiency to increase from 13% of the primary school population to 34%. Some school administrators announced that they would pay for free milk out of local property taxes, but Mrs. Thatcher put through a bill making...
Jackson categorically opposes the mandatory busing of schoolchildren for the sole purpose of achieving racial balance; he approves of busing only if "quality education is assured at the end of the bus ride." He never tires of reminding listeners that his own nine-year-old, Anna Marie, is the only presidential candidate's child who is attending public school. Forty percent of Anna Marie's schoolmates are black. Her principal and teacher are also black. While Jackson says that he welcomes black pupils who are bused to the school, "I'd be a lousy parent...