Education: Integration in Officialdom

Whatever his motives for asking the question, Georgia's Representative James Davis, chairman of the House subcommittee investigating integration in the capital's schools, could well have caused a flurry of embarrassment in Government circles. How many officials, he wanted to know, have been willing to send their children to desegregated schools? Last week Davis got his answer.

One of his obvious concerns was the U.S. Supreme Court. But none of the Justices now living in Washington has children of school age. Last year Vice President Nixon's two daughters attended the Horace Mann School, which...

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