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P:In upholding a lower court, which had refused the Jim Crow Texas Citizens Council an injunction to bar state funds from integrated schools, the Texas Supreme Court swept away the last legal obstacles to complete desegregation. It 1) declared invalid all sections of the state constitution and state statutes that required public-school segregation, and 2) knocked down that portion of the state's Gilmer-Aikin law that prohibited state funds to mixed schools. The decision, said Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd, "settles the law in Texas on a statewide basis."

P:Commenting on the U.S. shortage of scientists and engineers, President James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. observed that the crisis is not a matter of numbers alone. "There are many areas of technology," said he, "that are now closed books to those engineers lacking creative powers or to those whose training or analytical abilities never carried them beyond the superficial methods of handbook engineering . . . Employers are not just looking for 'bodies' with degrees . . . [They] are pressing the colleges for men with a more fundamental, integrated education in science, engineering and the humanities . . . [They] want men . . . with the power to deal with the technologies of tomorrow and not of yesterday."

P:At a special hearing, in which school principals were allowed for the first time to sound off without going through administrative channels, the New York City Board of Education heard some gloomy news about the state of the city's secondary education. Teacher morale, said six principals of academic high schools, has reached an alltime low while pupil insolence has hit a record high. Not only must the teacher cope with proven delinquents because there are not facilities enough to handle them; he must also take in a host of virtual nonreaders from the lower schools. Said Principal John McNeill of Brooklyn's Erasmus Hall High School: "We are shocked and depressed by the general failure of the authorities to understand the sorry deterioration in our high schools. The resentment of teachers who feel that no one at headquarters understands their problems or considers their plight seriously has changed the atmosphere of every high school in the city. They are not the high schools of the good old days, believe me."

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