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...effect of integration on children's achievements and the likely impact of extending school desegregation beyond the boundaries of increasingly black cities into the largely white suburbs. But when school opened last week, says Burton, "I was forced to shift from pondering and interviewing to the more practical chore of ordering helmets for bureau staffers." Then Burton, Correspondent David Wood and bureau stringers spread out to cover the trouble spots as well as the schools where desegregation has proceeded calmly and successfully. TIME correspondents in Boston did not have to use the helmets, but Chicago Bureau Chief Benjamin Gate...
...came from houses with doors, doors that were to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down. Making love was never shown to us. It was explained, as if a chore and a duty, hidden behind those doors. And little by little, action by action, we learned not to believe in anything, and that the word "love" was not understandable, so therefore, not to be discussed often. In essence, we learned all the guilt, the heavy guilt, that makes bad out of feeling good...
...from under we popped, to get away from those doors, and the chore of it, and find something exciting, and do something that felt good...
...Nixon's longtime personal secretary, remains on Nixon's payroll but has worked mostly in Washington while awaiting retirement on a comfortable federal pension. The Nixons also still have Manolo and Fina Sanchez as personal servants. Manolo, his former White House valet, has taken on a strange chore in the entertainment of male guests. Nixon, who likes off-color stories but hates to tell them, often gives Manolo a sort of cue, like "Manolo, tell him the one about the girl in the bikini...
Orderly Growth. Turin's new mayor can only hope to be equally effective in revitalizing his city. In his inaugural speech last week, Novelli called on fellow citizens of all political hues to join him in "a great experiment in urban reconstruction." It will not be an easy chore. In Bologna, growth was orderly and the population remained homogeneous. Turin, on the other hand, was barely able to cope with Italy's postwar economic miracle. As southern migrants rushed to Turin's factory jobs, the city grew by half a million people in the years between...