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P: The Oklahoma Association of Negro Teachers reported that some of its members may have to pay a heavy price for desegregation. Since the state started integrating its schools, 68 out of 1,600 Negro teachers have already found themselves without jobs, and the association estimates that the number may reach 300. Reason: though white schools will take in Negro pupils, they will not always have room for those pupils' former teachers.

P:Georgia made its usual desperate noises. First, the State Board of Education voted to revoke "forever" the licenses of any teacher, Negro or white, who "supports, encourages, condones or agrees to teach mixed grades." Thereupon, State Attorney General Eugene Cook popped a suggestion of his own: he demanded that the new ruling apply to any teacher who joins or even contributes to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

P:Taking up one of the five original cases that led the U.S. Supreme Court to make its decision against school segregation, a federal circuit court in Columbia, S.C. forbade the trustees of the Summerton school district to bar any pupil from any school because of his race, ordered them to proceed "with all deliberate speed" to end discrimination in the schools.

P: Deputy Mayor Henry Epstein of New York City tossed a group of local educators two questions for which no one seemed to have any answers. "How is it," he asked, "that the same youngsters who flunk shop courses are able to 'soup up' old jalopies with hand-tooled carburetors? And why are boys failures at making book ends but successes in crafting zip guns out of scrap?"

P: As a parting pat on the back for retiring President Henry Wriston of Brown University (TIME, April 11), John D. Rockefeller Jr., '97, announced that he was supplementing his June gift of $1,000,000 to the university with $4,000,000 more--he largest single gift Brown has ever received. Commented well-contented Henry Wriston: "A gift of these dimensions, completely unrestricted as it is . . . is evidence that the days of significant philanthropy are not over."

P:Appointment of the week: Edward H. Litchfield, 41, dean of Cornell's School of Business and Public Administration, to succeed Rufus H. Fitzgerald as twelfth chancellor of the big (16,000 students) University of Pittsburgh. The new chancellor's main job: to put through a ten-year development program that may cost as much as $100 million.

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