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...Roman Catholic parochial school was regarded as something of a necessary evil. Thanks to a decline in the number of nun teachers and a rapid growth of Catholic schools, laymen now constitute one-third of the parochial teaching force-and they are no longer content to accept second-class citizenship. In the past six weeks, teacher walkouts have hit three Chicago high schools, while last-minute negotiations narrowly averted similar strikes in New York City and Philadelphia. In the Los Angeles suburb of Mission Hills, 32 male lay teachers of Alemany High School recently negotiated their first written contract with...
Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I ain't seen hide nor hair of you." In a world of permanent revolution, it is reassuring to note that for undiscriminating moviegoers some things never change...
...stark fact remains that Negroes are dying for what the President calls "freedom" and "democracy" in Vietnam, while their relatives are treated as second-class citizens back in the states. Dr. King justly feels that this incongruity, as well as the damper the war has placed on anti-poverty measures, should be impressed on Negroes' minds...
Moscow, which they fear will reduce them to second-class status, to their misgivings over Viet Nam. But the Vice President acquitted himself with wit, charm and persuasiveness...
...mountain states recently, by charging that "the Great Society has grown into a tax-guzzling dinosaur"-an echo from the days when he and American Motors' little Rambler were doing battle with Detroit's "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Despite the Mormon Church's relegation of Negroes to second-class status, Romney, a faithful churchgoer who tithes his salary and abstains from liquor, caffeine and cigarettes, has a spotless civil rights record...