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Independent India is discovering social problems undreamed of in Mahatma Gandhi's philosophy. As the caste system and the traditional Hindu family begin to crumble, the barrier between the sexes in India is no longer the formidable fence it used to be. Last week in Agra-where India's two most famous lovers, the Mogul Emperor Shah Jehan and his queen, lie buried under the Taj Mahal-the Indian Youth Association held a solemn seminar about a new kind of problem: the sidewalk dalliance that Indian youth calls "Eve-teasing...
...have a right to suppress a major news story in its own backyard? Nowhere was this question more heatedly debated last week than in the city rooms and among the readers of Houston's three newspapers: the Post, the Chronicle, and the Press. The issue involved the toughest problem facing the U.S.'s largest segregated city: integration...
Except for small and poor schools, or for stock parts in big schools, prefabrication is no final answer. For each school is a unique problem in tailoring costly space on differing sites and to different needs. ("Frfls" are often the cheapest item.) Today, the key word is "flexibility."' To keep pace with fast, shifts in population, schools must expand or contract. Portable classrooms (3,300 in Los Angeles) are one answer; wings that can later be dismantled or sold to business are another. But most important, tne flexible school is a hedge against educational oosolescence. Even the fancy...
Factory or School? Run by "master" career teachers (earning $15,000 a year, Trump proposes) and assistants, this sort of schedule requires a different kind of school planning. Though acoustics are a problem (no really soundproof movable partition has been perfected), flexible walls can help turn the trick. One arresting example is Architect John Lyon Reid's new (1958) Mills High School in Millbrae, Calif. Though built to stand 100 years, Mills follows an industrial "loft plan" in which none of the interior walls is structural. By adjusting a few nuts and bolts, walls can be shifted overnight...
While Southern cities were firing legal smoke shells at school integration last week, New York City announced a historic breach of de facto segregation. A growing problem in every big Northern city, de facto segregation results from slum housing, racial ghettos and rigid school zoning laws. In New York City, where three-quarters of Manhattan's public-school pupils are now Negro and Puerto Rican, the concentration of them in some schools is as high as 100%. Negro parents complain that such schools are educationally inferior. Demanding a chance to send their children to more racially mixed schools, many...