Word: almond
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Closing down the schools, Editor Jonathan Daniels of the Raleigh, N.C. News & Observer once told fellow Southerners, is "something beyond secession from the Union; [it] is secession from civilization." Last week Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. and Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus ordered certain public schools closed in answer to a Supreme Court ruling that Little Rock's Central High School must proceed immediately with its program of integration...
...essence of the Supreme Court ruling (see The Supreme Court) was that the law does not retreat from violence. Yet it was through fully arrayed state laws that Virginia's Almond closed the Warren County High School at Front Royal and Arkansas' Faubus closed all four high schools in Little Rock. The irony is that the court's ruling was brought about by and is the answer to the violence built up a year ago in Faubus' wild bid for political power. This year the South's defense is one of legal stratagems. And though...
...vast orchards near Berryville. In the famed Tidewater region, haze shimmered blue over sparkling crystal estuaries. In the west, the beech's first gold and the oak's first russet welcomed autumn from the Appalachian crests. In the tangled Wilderness, dusk cast early purple shadows round Lindsay Almond's family farm land...
Behind the massive walnut desk in Richmond's proud, Ionic-fronted Capitol, designed by Thomas Jefferson in 1785, sat florid, heavy-shouldered J. (for James) Lindsay Almond Jr., 66th Governor of Virginia in the line of Jefferson, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, John Tyler and Harry Flood Byrd. He had, he admitted, been under "continuous pressure." Just the night before, he and his wife had been awakened several times by telephone calls: "She'd jump up so I could get some sleep, and I jumped up so she could get some rest. Usually, it meant that both...
...peaceful beauty, for all its graceful ways, for all Lindsay Almond's relaxed composure, Virginia was deeply, darkly troubled. The trouble lay in the issue of an era, an issue bound to come fittingly, inevitably to clearest focus in Virginia. It was as simple as this: Should Virginia obey the law of the land by allowing Negro children to attend school with whites? Or should Virginia close its public schools, blindly following a legalistic road that might well lead to the violence that Virginia's leaders most deplore? U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, Virginia's benign but absolute...