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...fright was triggered by Washington's "massive compliance" in 1954. As Southern Congressmen cried havoc, the school board quickly zoned the city, ordered students to attend only the schools in their areas. Effect: integration of children at the same economic levels, regardless of color-the prevailing U.S. school pattern. Current racial makeup: five all-white schools, 20 all-Negro. 20 more than 90% white, 74 more than 90% Negro...
...Papa Samuel Eaton's eye, and poor Alfred is the apple core. When the brother dies at 14, Alfred is cut off without a pennyworth of love by the steelmaster millionaire father. With old-fashioned pre-Freudian directness. Author O'Hara allows this rebuff to clue the pattern of Alfred Eaton's life. From then on, he is destined to confer his love rather than give it, to make contact with people rather than make friends. His outwardly charming, cold-fish personality seems to carry a jinx. Before he is 20, he is partially responsible...
...examples of what TV -"a malevolent juggernaut that's gonna chew me up"-will no longer let him do, he muscularly cited some unusual themes: a woman relieving anxiety over menopause by "throwing a pass" at one of her son's friends; the emotional pattern of an American Communist; the tortures of a man discovering that he is a homosexual. (Cracked Shaw: "But you could try a TV western with a homosexual horse...
...elevation, Morococha has an average atmospheric pressure (446 mm. of mercury) slightly more than half that at sea level. But its barrel-chested natives, after generations of exposure to perpetual oxygen shortage, have a lung structure and blood pattern especially adapted to extract full value from the last available whiff of oxygen (TIME, Jan. 20). They literally and habitually work like navvies with nary a huff or puff, even go to 16,000 ft. to "relax" by playing a murderously fast game of soccer...
What lifted Curley out of the barren pattern set by most other bosses was his wit. Much of it was of a local variety. In 1921 campaigning for Mayor against John R. Murphy, a good Irish Catholic, Curley dressed up a few of his camp followers as priests and sent them across Charlestown and elsewhere bruiting it about that John R. Murphy had renounced his Catholic Faith, joined a Masonic Order, had been observed attending Back Bay's Trinity Church, and intended to divorce his good wife in order to marry a sixteen-year-old girl. As the campaign...