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...international structure of SftP presently consists of a more or less informal communication among about 40 locations, mostly in the U.S., with active chapters in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Chicago, Ann Arbor, and Stony Brook, N.Y. The largest and most active chapter remains in Boston where the organization's bi-monthly magazine Science for the People is published. Local headquarters are at 897 Main Street in Cambridge, just off Mass Ave, halfway between Harvard...
...five theological libraries in the U.S. have for decades been within a day's journey of one another-at Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary and Connecticut's Hartford Seminary Foundation. More recently Berkeley's Graduate Theological Union and the Chicago Divinity School have been correcting the imbalance in the West, but there has been no collection below the Mason-Dixon line to match the luster of those in the Northeast. Now that has changed. Last week the final shipment of some 220,000 volumes-nearly 4% shelf miles of books-from Hartford...
...spite of the bitterness and violence that arose in some cities, most notably Boston and Louisville, in recent years most school desegregation in the U.S. "has gone peacefully and smoothly." The commission based its report on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa, Fla.), four open meetings (in Berkeley, Calif., Minneapolis, Stamford, Conn., and Corpus Christi, Texas), a mail survey of 1,300 school districts, and comprehensive analyses of 29 school districts scattered across the nation...
...quality of education in the schools is, of course, more difficult to measure. Overall, 75% of the school superintendents responding to the survey say that the quality of education in their schools is unchanged, 15% say it has improved, and 10% note a deterioration. In Williamsburg County, S.C., and Berkeley, achievement-test scores have risen since desegregation. Other "beneficial byproducts" of desegregation often include, the report says, better instructional programs, a reduction in dropout rates and increased participation of parents in school affairs. At the commission's hearing in Boston; Jane Margulis testified that it was "very frightening...
Nelson Polsby, a top political scientist at Berkeley, argues that the Republicans are so weak that the U.S. no longer has a real two-party system: "I would call it a 1½-party system." Robert Teeter, President Ford's chief pollster, believes that the G.O.P. has reached "permanent minority status." According to this theory it will eke out a presidential