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...company built the plant in the white section of a segregated suburb of Pretoria, South Africa about two years ago, Ann E. Shanahan, news director of Smith, said yesterday...
...already stopped in Roxbury to pick up the kids. Now it's rolling through Dedham and into the suburb of Walpole, a placid, ordinary community except for the enormous white structure looming in the dusk: a state prison that shares the town's name--a name that signifies everything wrong with prisons in this part of the country...
...prescribe remedies for segregation, more predominantly white communities are trying to take the initiative and integrate themselves-with varying success. Two current and contrasting examples: Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, where an advertising campaign to promote voluntary integration shows all the signs of failure, and the Chicago suburb of Oak Park, where urban specialists gathered earlier this month to study a promising local program...
...into newspaper work after becoming the nation's leading television news doctor, is in many ways typical of the bunch. A one-time social psychologist at the University of Iowa, he borrowed $800 from his father and in 1957 launched a market research firm in Marion, a pleasant suburb of Cedar Rapids, where his wife was able to land a teaching job. After helping more than 100 TV stations to retool their newscasts, Magid and his staff of 117 have sold their services to nearly 40 newspapers in the past three years, including the St. Louis Post-Dispatch...
...years ago I was a well-sought "candidate:" WASPy looks, elite prep school, a fair supply of alligator shirts, and a home address which--though not a "golden suburb"--was obscure enough not to be objectionable. For philosophic and admittedly economic reasons I decided not to join; though pressure on both sides was intense (from St. Paul's classmates, freshman friends, and parents on one side, and House friends and common sense on the other). Following my decision I became very antagonistic toward anything having to do with clubs and the elitism they represented. (I still have several friends...