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...South, racist politicians tried to make capital of the busing issue by urging parents to boycott the schools. Surprisingly few did. Alabama Governor George Wallace, for instance, visited a suburb of Mobile one day last week to plead with parents to resist busing "because it is not fair to arbitrarily bus these children." Despite Wallace's speech, more than 85% of Mobile's public school children showed up for classes, carrying out a busing program developed during the summer by Harold Collins, the aggressive superintendent of Mobile's board of education, and various community groups. In Nashville...
...high of $952,156. For example, it cited the disparities between the Los Angeles County districts of Baldwin Park and Beverly Hills. The latter, of course, is one of the wealthiest communities in the country, while Baldwin Park is a blue-collar, civil service suburb boxed in by industrial tax havens. According to 1968-69 figures, homeowners in Baldwin Park paid a relatively high school-tax rate of $5.48 per $100 of assessed property valuation, while in plush residential Beverly Hills owners were paying only $2.38. Yet even though Baldwin Park received more state aid than Beverly Hills, each...
Mike (John Moulder-Brown) is a teen-age fumbler who takes his first job as an attendant at a public bath and swimming pool located in the far reaches of some bleak London suburb. He is engulfed by sexual fantasies but terrified when any of his female customers attempt to initiate him. Little wonder. Women for him are a mystery and a threat. They either overwhelm him with bloated lust (like one patron who smothers him in a bone-crushing embrace while passionately discussing football) or exploit him, like Susan (Jane Asher), another attendant at the baths, whose simultaneous taunting...
Herbert Marcuse's doctrine that the vote is meaningless seems to have relatively few adherents among the young. This month the Boston suburb of Woburn provided a nutshell refutation of Marcuse's argument. During most of July, the town had been racked by firebombings and clashes between youths and the police. Mayor Edward F. Gill rejected virtually all the youths' demands. After an angry protest meeting, more than 50 of the young suddenly stalked across to Town Hall to protest in a quieter but far more effective way. They registered to vote. Said a spokesman: "When they...
...their children Marc-Daniel, 7, and Abigail, 4, had lived in Israel only eight months. Born on Malta, raised in England, Aroyo abandoned an advertising job in London to bring his family to the land of promise, where he felt they all belonged. Settled in the Tel Aviv suburb of Kiron, the Aroyos often spent Sabbaths touring their new country. One bright Saturday they set out south to visit a seaside nahal, or fortified camp, in the Sinai below El Arish...