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...minds of Negro pupils and parents," says New Jersey's State Commissioner of Education Frederick M. Raubinger, "a stigma is attached to attending a school whose enrollment is completely or exclusively Negro, and this sense of sting and resulting feeling of inferiority has an undesirable effect on attitudes related to successful training." Raubinger has issued orders to end de facto segregation in three New Jersey communities. In the same vein, a former foe of "social engineering via bussing," Dr. John Fischer, president of Columbia's Teachers College, warns that schools must "take positive action to bring Negro children...
Even before the trouble, people here were working toward a peaceful solution to the race problem. Now we must not only intensify our efforts, but we must try to live down the widespread stigma of our terrible Thursday...
...wrote the screenplays, composed the music, directed the actors, and produced the film, which is almost totally free from the stigma of the studio. His settings are real houses, forests, and-a Ray trademark-marshy riverbanks; and his people are as real as their surroundings...
With the formation of the U.S. Employment Agency, the President should choose the most effective means at his disposal to remove the stigma with which the concept of economic planning has been damned. Reference might be made to the example of Western Europe, where thriving free enterprise has been made possible by government efforts to structure the economy...
...largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...