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Indonesia's President Sukarno, who sorely lacks troopships, trained soldiers and hard cash for his threatened invasion of Netherlands New Guinea, is banking on jingo power to persuade the world that he means business. Though Sukarno last week slightly softened his repeated demand for immediate sovereignty over Netherlands New...
Last week San Francisco hotly debated Lowell's fate. At issue: School Superintendent Harold Spears's plan to shift Lowell from its condemned building in downtown San Francisco to new quarters in a middle-income district-and slash its "outside" students to 40% of enrollment. "If you pile...
One Opinion. When Lowell's ancient building was condemned in 1953, the board of education agreed to run its new quarters on the old undistricted basis. But then came a new board and New Superintendent Spears. To share Lowell's talent with the city's six other...
When the public got wind of the plan last month, Spears was astounded at the reaction. A "Save Lowell" committee roared into action, rounded up thousands of signatures in protest. Chinese and Negro leaders argued that a 60-40 school would soon shut out their children. Summed up one prominent...
At the board of education meeting called last week to decide the school's fate, 1,000 citizens heard three hours of speeches against a truncated Lowell. "No matter how thin you slice it," cried one Spears critic, "this will not be an academic high school." After nearly 40...