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Dayton knows where his audiences are: in the small towns and cities of heartland America. Baker's Hawk did not open in New York City last week, nor in Chicago, San Francisco or Boston. Instead it premiered in such places as Salt Lake City, Savannah, Boise and Topeka. Says Dayton: "Major cities just aren't where our audiences...
...comes to compliance with federal directives, that may be so. Of the more than 2,600 school systems in the eleven Southern states, the overwhelming majority desegregated under HEW pressure, and roughly 650 by direct court order. By 1972, 18 years after Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, 46.3% of all black pupils in the South attended schools that were predominantly white (compared to 31.8% in the Border states and 28.3% in the North and West). On the whole, desegregation has been most successfully achieved in small towns and rural districts, whereas problems remain in a number...
...Crow notion that separate schools for the races were all right as long as they were equal has, of course, been unconstitutional since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its landmark 1954 decision on Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (Kans.). Nonetheless, the state of Missouri never got around to deleting a clause from its own constitution calling for "separate schools ... for white and colored children." Last week the state's voters were finally given a chance to do so. With 90% of the tally in, the proposition to kill the clause was passed, but by the surprisingly...
...hear that whistle down the line? I figure that it's engine number forty-nine. She's the only one that'll sound that way On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa...
...month she flew to Washington in a jet and, sitting in a wheelchair, made her way to the White House Rose Garden. There she gave Presidential Aide Theodore Marrs a 27-in. by 36-in. tapestry depicting a proud American eagle. Mrs. Mason and eleven other residents of a Topeka nursing home had spent six weeks weaving the wall hanging. The work was their way of celebrating the Bicentennial, and they thought the President should have...