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Today is the deadline for Southern school districts to file their 1966-67 desegregation plans (or compliance forms) with the federal Office of Education. Districts which do not file plans can have their federal aid cut off under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As of Tuesday, 1,434 districts, of the total 1,950 in question, had complied. Officials are pleased with these figures; judging by what happened last year, the government can probably expect compliance from over 95 per cent of the districts, counting latecomers who will undoubtedly wait weeks or months before they sign...
...that Title VI has begun to make some headway in the South, it is time that the federal government show some concern with the problem of Northern de facto segregation. The Office of Education is carrying out studies in Boston, Chicago, San Francisco, and Chester, Pa., to determine the type of guidelines that should be applied to schools in the North. We hope that it will not be long before federal education officials finish their research and are able...
Adequate = Zero. Gomulka had already vetoed a visit to Czestochowa by Pope Paul VI to celebrate a millennial Mass, but now he seemed intent on keeping Catholics of all ranks-as well as others-away. Visas have been denied to the 150 foreign bishops, archbishops and cardinals invited to Czestochowa. Polish tourist offices in Europe and the U.S. have been blandly advising that visas will not be granted to Western pilgrims, who were originally expected to number 3,000,000. One explanation: "The country will already be too full of tourists." As for TV and newspaper coverage, some 125 Western...
Three years ago, Pope John XXIII quietly appointed a small pontifical commission to study birth control. After John's death, Paul VI enlarged it, but the experts found themselves hopelessly divided about how to update the church's position. Pope Paul recently revamped the commission again by naming 16 top prelates as members-and let them know that he would like to have some sort of consensus by June. The very reconsideration of the traditional stand on birth control is one major factor in weakening...
...creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world." But for others, the God issue?including whether or not he is dead?has been put aside as irrelevant. "Personally, I've never been confronted with the question of God," says one such politely indifferent atheist, Dr. Claude Lévi-Strauss, professor of social anthropology at the Collège de France. "I find it's perfectly possible to spend my life knowing that we will never explain the universe." Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray points to another variety of unbelief: the atheism of distraction, people who are just "too damn busy...