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Religious Illiteracy. For many Catholic parents, the hard choice is between ill-equipped, overcrowded parochial schools and public schools that threaten Catholic children with what Pittsburgh's diocesan school superintendent, the Very Rev. Msgr. John B. McDowell, calls "religious illiteracy." McDowell also warns that non-Catholics in many areas...
Duty & Equity. Roughly 50% of the nation's Negroes now live outside the South, 31% of them in twelve big cities, and most of them in Harlems of one kind or another. Nothing in theory prevents schools in these areas from being good, but in practice they are often...
As the questioning began, the dapper, silver-haired man rose and faced the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. For the next 2½ hours, although invited to be seated, Justice Cooper stood and defended his record as chief justice of New York City's court of special sessions from 1951 to...
Marseille figured it was getting an overdose. Of the 12,000 hotel rooms in the city, 8,000 are permanently rented to the strangers; housing conditions are so overcrowded that often as many as 15 pieds-noirs live in the same small apartment. Midtown Marseille has become one huge traffic...
It was not always so. When Crump first entered the antiquated, overcrowded county jail, he was described as "savage" and "animalistic," helped instigate a riot himself. But under the guiding hand of beefy, reform-minded Warden Johnson, 44, Crump gradually began to come round. He read voraciously, boned up on...