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...easy to use the South as a shield against Harvard, an excuse for failures. It's easy, at first, to go back home and feel comfortable and successful there, and to dismiss as ignorant people from the North who will tell you how backward and racist the South...
...past four years a one-man road show named Lester Maddox has been touring Georgia. At rural crossroads and in small towns where his beloved "little people" congregate, Maddox, 59, sings hymns and country ballads, plays his harmonica, and pedals his star-spangled bicycle backward. The object is to give Maddox a second term as Governor, a post he held from 1967 to 1971. Prohibited by state law from succeeding himself, Maddox has been biding his time as Lieutenant Governor while waging the campaign he calls his "last hurrah." Last week that effort suffered a setback that may be fatal...
...post as a schoolteacher to help the Spanish people defend their liberty. Jordan--laconic, straightforward, and uncomplicated--joins a group of Spanish peasants working behind the Nationalist lines and, while working with them to blow up an enemy supply bridge, comes to feel less of an alien among these backward people. In the three tense days of preparation he senses his impending death, almost kills the leader of the peasant band, and agonizes over the suffering his mission will surely bring them. But, underlying all, he feels a simple, common bond of humanity with the Spaniards that prevents him from...
...Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee. They were heatedly opposed by the court's four remaining Warren-era holdovers-William Brennan, Byron White, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. White, Douglas and Marshall filed dissenting opinions. Marshall, the court's only black member, described the ruling as "a giant step backward" for the court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem to be the easier course to allow our great metropolitan areas to be divided up each into two cities-one white, the other black-but it is a course, I predict, our people will...
...There are not enough middle-income people in Detroit. Integration is only meaningful if there are enough people to integrate. The decision is a step backward. It deprives the people of Detroit and the children of the nation of what essentially could have been a short cut to integration. The decision means that we will not use the schools as a means for integrating society...