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...welcome the decision of the court. Only in districts with a high ratio of whites to blacks did desegregation bring a measure of integration. In Columbia, where whites outnumber blacks 3 to 1, high school students ignored eight pickets outside and sat down together in an assembly hall to cheer a black student leader who urged them to make their town "a lighthouse in Marion County." In Yazoo City, where the student population is almost evenly divided between whites and blacks, a majority of the whites showed up for registration and classes (see box opposite...
...were so enthusiastic about Charles Lindbergh's flight to Paris in 1927 that they yearned for careers in aviation. The son of a Syrian father and an English mother, tall, dark "Jeeb" Halaby remembers that as a twelve-year-old in his native Dallas he turned out to cheer when Lindy came to town. Five years later, Halaby took his first plane ride in an OX 5 Travel Air and enrolled in a flying course. He borrowed $6,500 from his parents?who ran an art shop on the top floor of the Neiman-Marcus department store?...
...also one of the few British disillusionment-with-old-England films in recent years that is not heart-on-sleeve-a syndrome that applies to 1969's lamentable Oh, What a Lovely War. And in the film's ability to get us to cheer and revel in its violent dreams of destruction, it is positively startling...
...audition-even a topless go-go dancer," says one of Parade's people. "But for the most part, those who auditioned were Disney-type kids: all-American kids." The average age of the girls is 19, the boys 21, and they run the gamut of honor-rollers, cheer leaders, glee-clubbers and yearbook editors. The cast has such a home-town flavor that Choreographer Miriam Nelson and others had to conduct travel clinics to help the kids adjust to life on the road. "Get eight hours of sleep a night," they were told. "Phone home at least once...
Nevertheless, many retailers expect their gray Christmas to be followed by sluggish spring sales. Lawrence Goodman, a vice president of Korvette, offers a bit of cheer for the consumer: "There will be great buys in January" -when stores mark down the goods that they failed to sell before Christmas...