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Fortunately, the frequent intermissions set apart Swan Lake's classical pas de deux from the modern dances, so that the transition from new to old was not too jarring. This pas de deux is strictly an exhibition piece and the celebrated Igor Youskevitch performed it with amazing skill, as did his partner, Alicia Alonso. It is too bad that this duo appeared for such a short time...
...tale began 13 months ago, when a county grand jury convened to investigate charges that the examinations given to school-system telephone operators were "rigged" to discriminate against Negroes and Jews. In the course of the hearings, a crusading school principal named Mrs. Ione Swan asked to testify. Mrs. Swan was not immediately concerned about the discrimination issue. She had, she said, far more serious matters on her mind...
Death & Maggots. One of Mrs. Swan's concerns was the hard blacktopping that the board had used to cover school playgrounds. Children had fallen on it, and one had died as a result. To Mrs. Swan, the board seemed guilty of manslaughter -and that was not all. It was also guilty of running filthy cafeterias-specifically, of buying all-but-rotten meat. Furthermore, said Mrs. Swan, some members of the board were getting a cut out of certain school-system contracts...
...jury pricked up its ears at Mrs. Swan's charges. School butchers filed affidavits that the food center handled "starting-to-spoil" meat, that hamburgers were watered and sugared to disguise the taste, and that the meat was delivered to the schools in containers coated with maggots. After Mrs. Swan's appearance, the board hastily reformed the food center. But was there still some monkey business about the contracts...
Councilman W. Donnison Swan '16 chairman of the finance committee, told reporters that there was no possibility of any vote on Atkinson "in the near future...