Word: washingtons
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...When Washington declared that it would defend West Berlin as if it were U.S. soil, Pravda jeered that "the creation of a war psychosis" could not keep the peace-loving Soviet Union from unselfishly handing over its control of the Allied traffic to West Berlin to its puppet government. A six-man Soviet-East German commission met in East Berlin to arrange take-over details. "Once again the eyes of the world are upon us," tough Socialist Mayor Willy Brandt (see box) told West Berlin's Parliament. "We have no weapons, but we have a right to live...
...London Daily Telegraph has added a new correspondent to its U.S. staff, subscribes to the New York Times news service; the London Daily Express now has six reporters in the U.S.-four in New York, one in Washington and one on the West Coast-and has introduced a regular weekly feature called "Transatlantic Page, " a compendium of items about the U.S. The Sunday Express, which recently went to 24 pages (from an average 16), has devoted much of the extra space to U.S. coverage, keeps a fulltime correspondent, Arthur Brittenden in New York City...
Shoulder to shoulder under a purple umbrella, two girls left their porticoed high school one drizzly afternoon in Washington. D.C. They seemed identical -lumpy teen-agers with bandannas and sagging sox-except that one was a Negro, the other white. Last week, as other Southern cities rumbled angrily (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), such quiet scenes in the nation's capital spoke volumes about school integration-which Washington once viewed with frightened alarm...
...fright was triggered by Washington's "massive compliance" in 1954. As Southern Congressmen cried havoc, the school board quickly zoned the city, ordered students to attend only the schools in their areas. Effect: integration of children at the same economic levels, regardless of color-the prevailing U.S. school pattern. Current racial makeup: five all-white schools, 20 all-Negro. 20 more than 90% white, 74 more than 90% Negro...
Since integration, one real problem of Washington schools has been the ancient one of low-income U.S. Negroes. The total school population has risen to 73% Negro, up 13% since 1954. This may refleet a white flight to the suburbs. The problems still remain-to be confronted for the first time by Washington's white teachers. Poverty among the families of Negroes at Jefferson Junior High is so severe that Principal Hugh Smith is sometimes asked to help them raise rent money. His unwed-mother problem is "tremendous." Says he: "There are years of work ahead...