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...similar device now being set up or planned in 35 U.S. cities is "the educational park." It involves a central campus to which all of a district's pupils would travel?again affording economies and the possibilities for superior libraries and teaching facilities as well as integration. The idea is proving most appealing to cities having between 100,000 and 500,000 population. Pittsburgh has modified the concept by planning five new "great high schools," all designed to serve large, racially diverse areas...
Some integration can be achieved by redrawing school district lines. It can also be aided by pairing formerly all-white and all-black schools so that each contains half the usual grades and also half the enrollment of both of the previous schools?provided pairing does not force whites to flee the area. New York City envisioned a "linear" school concept, in which schools would be strung out over a new expressway and the highway would provide rapid transportation between mixed neighborhoods. The idea was abandoned when expressway plans fell through...
...even the best-way to obtain it. Separatists now urge black control over schools in black communities, whether in the North or the Deep South. One moderate though disenchanted veteran of a controversial experiment in local school control is Rhody McCoy, administrator of the battered Ocean Hill-Brownsville district in Brooklyn. McCoy says bluntly: "Integration has never worked. What kind of a hypocrite am I to tell black children to do their thing in school and college so that they can take their rightful place in society? Where is that place?" In a striking new alliance, CORE...
...Boston College, has the support of a citizens' caucus as he seeks to oust Incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin, 71, a 14-term veteran who is vice chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. Though Philbin is favored, Drinan's liberalism and antiwar stand are popular with his district's relatively affluent, middle-class voters. These qualities, combined with his age, make Drinan an attractive alternative for an electorate that is rapidly wearying of old-time machine politics...
...film grinds to a finale in which the hero stabs the nude girl. "We're turning the whole picture down," says Mrs. Avara. "They insult us by submitting stuff like this." Among the films banned last year was I Am Curious (Yellow), the Swedish import found by federal district courts to possess sufficient "redeeming social value" to qualify for constitutional protection...