Report Card

-- Despite the fact that 64 Texas school districts (including San Antonio, El Paso and Corpus Christi) have already made plans to end segregation in their classrooms, State Attorney General John Ben Shepperd warned that their action may be illegal. "Our Texas laws," said he, "were not passed on by the Supreme Court . . . and until the Supreme Court specifically states otherwise, segregation remains the law in Texas."

-- In Delaware, the state board of education reported that the progress of desegregation was faring little better. Of the 62 districts asked to file by Aug. 15 their plans for desegregating, only 16 replied that they had any intention of ending Jim Crow this fall.

-- Though he has no idea just why, General Manager Joseph Hawthorne of Los Angeles' civil service announced that of the eleven words most frequently misspelled by job hunters, six begin with "a." The eleven: accommodate, accumulate, afraid, all right, already, aqueduct, dictionary, occasion, personnel, receive and separate.

-- Appointment of the week: Henry Wriston, 66, retired president of Brown University, as executive director of the American Assembly, the nonpartisan discussion society founded in 1950 by Columbia University's President Dwight D, Eisenhower.

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