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...that figure was attacked last week by Ramsey Clark, the Attorney General who had preceded John Mitchell. He complained that it "implied that the job is done, when, in fact, it is far from done." Testifying before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, Clark argued that even when a school district is classified officially as having been desegregated, the actual number of black students sitting in classrooms with whites too often remains insignificantly small. Clark's point is, of course, quite valid, but so is the Administration's effort to take the necessary first steps against...
Less obvious-and more insidious-is what happens to black students and teachers in some school districts where the terms for desegregation have been determined unilaterally by local white school boards. In recent testimony before the Senate Select Committee on Equal Educational Opportunity, five young blacks and an official of the National Education Association described a bleak pattern of "internal segregation," which produces separate classrooms, separate lunch and gym periods and even separate bells so that blacks and whites will not use the halls at the same time. In Louisiana's DeSoto Parish, buses pick up blacks...
...personal triumph for Edward Richard George Heath, whose working-class background clashes sharply with the traditions of the blue-blood-dominated Conservative Party. The son of a master carpenter, Heath is a rarity among Tory Prime Ministers: a man who is not a product of one of Britain's select public schools. Heath did, however, attend Oxford's Balliol College, on an organ scholarship. Some acquaintances claim that they can still detect a trace of cockney in his acquired upper-class accent. "His vowels betray him," says a fellow Tory, who recalls that some party members would mimic Heath...
...omission of Carty is the most ludicrous inconsistency in what has come to be known as "Bowie's booboo." To keep people "involved" in the All-Star game, Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn decided last winter to again let the fans make the selections instead of the players. To prevent ballot stuffing, Kuhn arranged to have the voting policed and tabulated by computer. Trouble was, to allow enough time for programming the computer, managers and player representatives had to select the nominees last spring, which is about as reliable as trying to predict the Dow-Jones averages eight months...
Thus, in addition to the debacle at the Bernsteins', Radical Chic brought on the party that Assemblyman Andrew Stein gave for a few striking Mexican-American grape workers on his father's estate in Southampton. The select "all stood there in their Pucci dresses, Gucci shoes. Capucci scarves. The wind had come up off the ocean and it was wrecking everybody's hair. People were standing there with their hands pressed against their heads as if the place had been struck by a brain-piercing ray from the Purple Dimension." And in Wolfe's view...