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Many blacks think that they must now reject all of their white friends?the Jew among them?in order to discover themselves. As a result, an ominous current of anti-Semitism has appeared to widen the breach between them and the Jew. While this ancient virus infects only a small fraction of the country's 22 million Negroes, the Jew knows from bitter experience that it can spread with distressing rapidity. At the same time, some latent anti-black feelings have come to the fore among Jews?symbolized by the half-casual, half-contemptuous Yiddish reference to the "schvartzes" (blacks...
More than one out of every four Americans?almost 58 million?is attending some kind of school today. Though education is and will remain primarily a state and local responsibility, the Federal Government can do more to widen and improve the educational prospects of every American. In the elementary and secondary schools, the chief object of its attention must for the immediate future remain the ghetto child. One of its top research targets should be how to educate the black child of the inner city; no one has yet found a very good answer. Truly effective ghetto education...
...bears as much relevance to the cure of the city's ills as the fact that Rhody McCoy lives in Roosevelt, L.I. and earns an annual salary of $30,000 (which TIME neglected to state). If you must elect a villain in this crisis, I suggest that we widen the range of candidates to include Bernard Donovan, the Board of Education of the City of New York, Rhody McCoy, the Rev. C. Herbert Oliver, and of course, Mayor lohn Lindsay...
...that neither diplomatic recognition nor admission of Communist China to the United Nations would at this point serve a useful purpose. At the same time, however, to achieve peace in the world we must swiftly move to replace conflict with cooperation, restrictions with reconciliation. We must begin immediately to widen our contacts with the 750 million people who live in mainland China...
During the squabble, Cambridge has tried to widen the purview of both parts of the study, and to assure that it--unlike the 1966-67 examination--will not be done by DPW-handpicked consultants. If successful, the City's strategy could produce a study recommending ways to ease the pain the Inner Belt would bring to Cambridge. The DPW appears to have given ground only grudgingly, attempting to assure that, once again, its plans for the Belt will be accepted after the study ends...