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...busing can also involve large areas and substantial numbers of students. In such Southern cities as Nashville, Tenn., and Winston-Salem, N.C., compliance with court orders to integrate has been achieved primarily by busing hundreds of blacks to hitherto all-white schools. But courts are increasingly insisting that cities desegregate their schools by more democratic two-way busing, even in major cities where logistics are complicated. Few have moved farther or faster than Mobile, Ala., which for years fought desegregation hard, appealing federal court orders no fewer than eleven times. At the time of the Supreme Court order upholding busing...
With all the loot that was coming their way, the cops finally grew finicky about what they would accept. "I don't want Pall Mall, either," a cop complained on tape to an informant, who then asked: "What about Winston?" Sniffed the cop: "No, I don't know anybody that smokes Winston." When an informant offered to procure some "Sherry Herring" for a cop, the officer remonstrated: "Cherry Heering, Cherry Heering. If you're going to be a dealer in liquor, you have to know your stuff...
...vote was a considerable personal triumph for Prime Minister Edward Heath, the most European of Britain's leaders since Winston Churchill. As Lord Privy Seal in Macmillan's Cabinet, he was in charge of negotiations for entry between 1961 and 1963, when the effort was ended by the first of De Gaulle's two vetoes. As Heath put it, winding up last week's debate: "I do not think any Prime Minister has stood in this box in time of peace and asked the House to take a positive decision of such importance...
After the China trip, if nothing upsets his plans, Nixon will become the first sitting U.S. President to visit Moscow and only the second to meet Russian leaders in the Soviet Union. Franklin Roosevelt traveled to Yalta for a fateful wartime conference with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill in 1945. Despite the postwar chill between the two nations, recent Presidents have been more than willing to seek better relations with the U.S.S.R. by going to Moscow. But Dwight Eisenhower's plans to visit the Kremlin crashed with the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane over Russia...