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...belief that our destiny is set and we have no power to settle our differences is ridiculous, an idea out of the Dark Ages." VINCE WHITMER Leesburg...
ELVIS: THE TWINLESS TWIN'S SEARCH FOR SPIRITUAL MEANING Peter Whitmer, a clinical psychologist and author of the newly published The Inner Elvis (Hyperion; $22.95), argues that Elvis' stillborn twin brother Jesse played a critical and enduring role in the King's life. "Elvis' psychic raison d'etre as a twinless twin was to put himself back together again," says Whitmer. "That was really the power of his creativity--as well as the momentum behind his self-destructive downward spiral...
...Peter O. Whitmer Boylston, Mass...
PONTIAC, MICH. Racial confrontations, the bombing of buses and a school boycott made Pontiac a national symbol of white resistance to busing in 1971. Since then, tempers have cooled, and School Superintendent Dana Whitmer considers the busing program, which includes 15,500 of the city's 20,193 public school students, a qualified success. He concedes that overall test scores in reading and math have declined slightly because high-achieving white students from affluent families have left the district. But Whitmer maintains that individual achievement for both blacks and whites has remained the same and that "the outlook is good...
...Pontiac parents, busing has been a traumatic experience. "There is fear," says School Superintendent Dana Whitmer. "The whites fear the ghetto and the blacks fear sending their children into what they are afraid are Ku Klux Klan areas." The significant issue, though, is how the children have reacted. The answer, so far, seems to be: remarkably well, to judge by the testimony of two typical Pontiac teenagers...