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Summer rains swept the green countryside of the Ile-de-France. Splashing sheets of water, Charles de Gaulle's presidential cortege barreled along the cobbled lanes under sodden chestnut and plane trees, past grey stone farmhouses and into crossroad hamlets where the faithful waited-schoolchildren holding limp paper flags, white-haired women huddled under umbrellas, village mayors draped with tricolored sashes of office. Disdainfully hatless and coatless, the rain plastering his hair to his pink scalp, De Gaulle plunged into the crowds, grasping outstretched hands...
...Civil Rights Act to withhold federal funds from school districts that discriminate against Negro teachers. One section of the act's Title VI specifically prevents him from trying to stop discriminatory employment practices, but Keppel nonetheless believes that discrimination against Negro teachers has a discriminatory effect on schoolchildren, and thus his office can require faculty as well as student integration as a qualification for federal...
...Henry I (1100-1135) decreed that it should equal the distance from a man's outstretched thumb to his nose. Indeed the whole British system of weights and measures is fraught with tradition, and for that reason it is frightfully hard to work with, as generations of British schoolchildren, agonizing over gills, pecks and rods, have learned...
...outsiders, the signs of change in the new South often seem heartbreakingly and absurdly slight. Progressive Southerners will proudly point to facts that would be scarcely noticed elsewhere: a group of Negro schoolchildren being applauded during a visit to the South Carolina state capitol; the wife of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus having Negro women to an integrated tea; white bellhops carrying luggage for Negro guests. But taken together, and given the South's unique history, such signs tell of an entirely new climate...
...first. The day when donors' private collections were hung in toto is past; the Met insists on constantly upgrading as finer examples become available. Also past are the days when objects were crammed together in unlighted Victorian display cases. To catch the eye of the young (1,000 schoolchildren a day visit the Met by appointment), the museum inaugurated one of the first children's museums in the U.S., with spinning color charts, and a movie of unwrapping a mummy that fascinates even adults...