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...Supreme Court decisions were not based on any finding that schoolchildren had been deprived of liberty. Lawyers for the suing parents had indeed contended that the children were under subtle social pressures to participate in prescribed religious exercises in their schools, and that these pressures impaired liberty. But that line of argument did not make much impression on the court. In effect, the court held that any required religious exercise in a public school is unconstitutional-whether or not liberty is infringed. In last June's Bible-reading case, Associate Justice Tom Clark's majority opinion made...
...seems impervious to the idea that big cities need the best schools in the country. At last count, 38% of Boston's 90,000 pupils attended schools more than half a century old, including one built in 1847. Many are ill-lit, malodorous fire traps. Boston's schoolchildren are jammed in tight-40 to a class at many schools. It takes three or four years to build a school in Boston, and systematic overhauling is unheard...
...Fangs. Last April, King sent out marchers, including troops of Negro schoolchildren, to protest discrimination in hiring and at lunch counters, rest rooms and other public facilities in Birmingham. Many civil rights leaders, both Negro and white, thought the effort was singularly ill-timed-after all, a new, perhaps more moderate, city administration was about to take over Birmingham. But the way it turned out, King's demonstrations may reasonably be considered the sparking point for the Negro revolution...
...getting along on $10,000 or so. But much of it is a lotus land of rich brokers, industrialists, movie producers, and more psychiatrists per psyche than anywhere else in the country. Going for it is an assessed real-estate valuation of $239 million and the smallest ratio of schoolchildren to population (about 1 to 7) in California. As a result, it has the lowest school-tax rate of any sizable school district in the state, but the tax take is nonetheless so high that Beverly Hills spends almost twice as much per student as the average for Los Angeles...
...hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching in closed formations, turned out for Khrushchev. Along parts of the 16-mile route to the Red city hall, the only spectators were the Volkspolizei...