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No big U.S. city has a school superintendent quite as embattled, aloof and well paid-$48,500 a year* as Chicago's Benjamin C. Willis, 64. An aggressive administrator justly proud of the fact that in 13 years he has added 280 new school buildings to the Chicago system...
Chicago's school problems are immense enough to make any superintendent unpopular. The system is short of money, requires 1,700 new teachers each year simply as replacements, needs still more buildings, has an influx of Southern Negroes and an outgo of suburban-bound whites that has pushed the...
School-Board Clash. Willis tried to deal with rising racial tensions by inaction and silence. When civil rights groups charged that neighborhood-school lines were drawn to crowd Negro kids into segregated schools while nearby white neighborhoods had schools with unused classrooms, Willis long refused to produce any racial census...
As Iolanthe, Janet Walker acquits herself admirably; she sings beautifully and acts well. Jean' Taynton as the Fairy Queen is something of a ham, but a good ham is hard to come by, so who cares? Thomas Siegal would steal the show as Private Willis except that Lithgow has previously...
X for Apathy. Nowhere is the X-factor of Negro participation more potentially decisive than in Virginia, where three Democratic incumbents who personify the Old Dominion's conservative tradition are being challenged in the July 12th primary. U.S. Representative Howard Worth ("Judge") Smith, 83, longtime chairman of the House...