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Last week a breakdown in the system made 8,200 Nebraska schoolchildren pawns in a bureaucratic clash. Thousands of youngsters elsewhere could also become involved...
...America, the land of paradoxes: people are expressing disgust at the My Lai massacre of innocent women and children. But at the same time, a mob of this country's citizens attacked innocent schoolchildren with deadly intent. Where is the greater atrocity committed-in Viet Nam or here at home...
...does seem impractical, and City Councilman Marvin Braude just could be right when he calls it "a disaster for our community." In a typical if oversimplified anti-integration complaint, he argues that "you just can't solve all the inequities in our society by putting the burden on small schoolchildren." Given the Administration's current stance, Los Angeles too hopes to be rescued by the President if higher courts do not modify the order...
...Carolinas have adjusted realistically to the inevitable and have reasoned responsibly with segregationists in their states. But Governors in Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Florida are scoring easy and dangerous political points by stirring up all of the anti-integration forces. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought to let the air out of them [the tires] and steal them [the buses]." He and Louisiana's John McKeithen, Alabama's Albert Brewer and Mississippi's John Bell Williams...
Different Needs. From the 10,000 schoolchildren who were their sources, the Opies collected the unwritten rules for 2,500 games that are now played in England, Scotland and Wales, and they traced their historic origins. Like many of the verses in the Opies' now-classic volumes on the origins of nursery rhymes (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955), many of today's games are centuries old. Blindman's buff, ducks and drakes, hide and seek, and tug-of-war were enjoyed by children in Plato's Greece. Ancient Egypt knew the finger-flashing game of paper-scissors...