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...week's end there was almost as much antibusing activity in the courts as in the streets. The school board of Winston-Salem, N.C., asked a U.S. District Court to reconsider its order requiring the busing of more than half the city's 48,000 public school students. A delegation of parents from Pinellas County, Fla., showed up in Washington to ask Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas to stay a district court busing order. In light of the Supreme Court's consistent record of upholding busing plans, there was only a dim chance that the appeals...
...decision of last spring did not really mean what some courts seemed to think it meant-that the law required enough busing to achieve an equal racial balance in every school within a school district. Not so, said Burger, in an obiter dictum to a decision that substantiated a Winston-Salem, N.C., busing order. If federal and school officials would only read the opinion carefully, he pointed out, they would find the statement that "the constitutional command to desegregate schools does not mean that every school in every community must always reflect the racial composition of the school system...
Fighting Strikes. Donnahoe set out on a shopping spree and bought the Tampa Times and Tribune in Florida, the Winston-Salem Journal and Twin City Sentinel in North Carolina, as well as the Newark Evening News. Other acquisitions included a television station in Tampa and a cable-TV system in Fredericksburg, Va. Most of Media General's properties are profitable, but labor difficulties have dogged Donnahoe in Richmond and Newark...
Checks Preferred. The kind of controversy that really upsets Miss America officials, however, is generated by girls who are outspoken about the unabashed commercialism of it all. "It's a form of prostitution," said Amelita Facchiano, who as Miss Winston-Salem was eliminated in the 1970 Miss North Carolina contest. Maria Fletcher, the girl who won that competition in 1961 and went on to be Miss America, was more philosophical: "The sooner you realize you're a product, the better." Dressed, coiffured and paraded up and down, contestants are like dolls for moms and dads. "Miss America," says...