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Still, many Mississippians hope to avoid what they cannot delay. In the pattern of Virginia, Louisiana and other Southern states where many more than 200 private schools have been established in order to exclude blacks, more than 30 new private schools have been set up in Mississippi since September. They...
Ordeal of Change. Despite local fears, neither integration nor the exodus from the public schools is likely to destroy public education in Mississippi. Many parents cannot afford the $40 or more monthly tuition charged by most of the private schools. Past experience has shown that those who boycott newly integrated...
Mississippi's ordeal of change will soon be shared by other Southern states. The Department of Health, Education and Welfare still lists 926 Southern school districts as segregated and has voluntary agreements from 118 to desegregate next fall. Four hundred more are under court orders that will probably be...
His odyssey of good will had taken him 35,000 miles, but when Texas Billionaire H. Ross Perot, 39, came home to Dallas last week, he had little to show for his trip. Twelve days earlier, Perot had loaded a chartered Boeing 707 jet-christened Peace on Earth -with Christmas...