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...Then, on a friend's advice, he ran for lieutenant governor, won with surprising ease. Two years later, Governor William Umstead died of a heart attack, and Hodges moved into the executive mansion. Although a segregationist himself, he planned so successfully for school integration (of the token variety) that North Carolina has had fewer legal problems than almost any other Southern state. As Governor, Hodges traveled endlessly promoting new business, has lured more than $1 billion in investment to North Carolina since 1954; at the same time he pushed stiff zoning laws past his legislature to prevent industrial blight...
...unusual," he remarked, "but it is never out of place." A Republican, Hoffman was born in New Jersey, but spent his long career as a trial lawyer in Virginia. His major legal monument is a series of important decisions in 1957 and 1958 that led to token integration of Norfolk's public schools. With unfailing sympathetic words. Judge Hoffman ruled in case after case that Virginia's much-imitated pupil-placement system-a Governor-appointed state board with sweeping powers to locate students in specific schools-was an evasive effort to keep schools segregated. In February 1959, Norfolk...
...situation alive by refusing to grant funds. However, such action can only lead to a closing of the public schools and it is doubtful whether the people of the city would permit this to continue, any more than they have in Arkansas where Faubus has been forced to begin token integration...
...lives on, blinded. What follows is more climactic and cruel than the book's actual ending. Axel silently shares the house and Margot, while the pair mulct the pitiable Albinus of his remaining money ("Before we go we'll buy him a dog-as a small token of our gratitude...
Neither a new degree nor a changed M.A. will carry much weight unless introduced by influential universities like Harvard, Yale, and California, and these are already overburdened by candidates for a straight research degree who are dear to the hearts of research-oriented university faculties. By the same token, there will be little hope until small colleges, and perhaps university colleges, recognize that research and teaching are not only different, but often independent, and in a manpower shortage, antithetical. If liberal education is to survive at all, colleges must also learn that the aim of education is to produce...