Word: alford
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Little Rock, Ark., muddling along in its 15th month of school segregation crisis, last week elected a new board of education to replace five members who resigned Nov. 14, plus a sixth, Segregationist Dale Alford, who opposed and beat Congressman Brooks Hays in the general elections. The big surprise: three of the victors are moderates on the integration question, won despite hot-blooded opposition by Segregationist Governor Orval Faubus, who proclaimed on election eve that the three were really integrationists. Said defeated Candidate W. F. Rector, another moderate who was defeated by a pro-Faubus candidate: the moderates' victory...
Williams' outdoor hockey rink froze in time for Saturday night's game with the Crimson, but the varsity's forwards turned the heat on Eph goalie Dick Alford and skated to a 9-2 victory. Dick Fischer and Dave Vietze contributed two goals each and Bud Higgenbottom scored once for a first line that showed considerable speed and passing precision...
Raphael Demos, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity, expressed agreement with Dawson on the need for undergraduate courses on "the impact of religion on our culture," but felt the subject was sufficiently covered in existing courses...
...acrimony and litigation, the five moderate members of the Little Rock school board-segregationists who believe in complying with Federal law-last week resigned in a mood of "utter hopelessness, helplessness and frustration." Left as the board's sole remaining member: Supreme Court-flouting Segregationist Dr. Dale Alford, who won a larger triumph a fortnight ago, when he captured the House of Representatives' seat of Moderate Congressman Brooks Hays on a write-in vote...
...Faubus' whipping boys. He had used us to win or help win three elections. Our integration plan would have worked if it hadn't been for political interference." Out along with the rest of the board: School Superintendent Virgil T. Blossom. Before quitting, the board voted over Alford's objection to dismiss Blossom, pay him $19,741.41 for the remaining 19 months of his contract. But by week's end the segregationist machinery had produced a taxpayer's suit charging collusion, postponed payment...