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...majority of a city's schoolchildren are Negro, "integration" may be a fairly elusive goal. The phenomenon of resegregation also suggests that the law can go only so far in correcting racial inequalities-and that stressing the fine points of integration is less important than insisting on excellent schooling for all U.S. children...
Stocky and quick-smiling, Macapagal (pronounced Mock-a-pa-gahl) was born 51 years ago in a palm-frond hut in rice-growing Pampanga province, north of Manila. His first name means "God-given" in Spanish. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic who taught catechism to schoolchildren, and his father wrote poetry in the local dialect. Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal's family was often hungry...
...poor physical fitness of the U.S. schoolchild. Last spring Oklahoma University's Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who is the part-time director of President Kennedy's physical-fitness program, picked Muskogee, Okla. (pop. 45,000), as a pilot case, asked the city to test all its schoolchildren. Of 6,557 kids who took the three-exercise exam consisting of pull-ups, sit-ups and squat-thrusts, 3,043 flunked. Stunned by the 46.9% failure rate, Muskogee set up an all-out fitness program for its whole school system, put it into operation this fall...
This month, after six weeks of muscle flexing, Muskogee's schoolchildren who failed the first test tried again. This time 78.9% passed...
...over the country, Ghanaians were sweeping dirt under the Queen's welcome mat. In Accra, battalions of laborers patched the city's potholed streets and covered over open drainage ditches. Thousands of schoolchildren practiced curtsies before the empty, 15,000-seat grandstand in the huge new Black Star Square. Arches of Ghana's red, yellow and green national colors went up over all the major streets, and telephone poles sprouted five-pointed Ghana stars in colored lights. Orders went out to all cities for Ghanaians to break out paint to make their premises presentable...