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Mississippi Governor Ross R. Barnett was quite satisfied with his recent visit to Harvard, according to reports in Mississippi newspapers. And Mississippi citizens must be pleased with their governor, as their papers told them Barnett was "courageous...Daniel invading the lion...
...instructive journey north for Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett, 65, invited to speak by the Harvard Law School Forum. Stopping by the Massachusetts State House on a protocol visit, Barnett was talking with officials when in walked Attorney General Edward W. Brooke, 43, first Negro elected to such a post in the U.S. Barnett briefly shook hands. "Hello there," he said. "Welcome to Massachusetts, Governor," replied Brooke with a smile, and then shook hands with Mrs. Barnett and her daughter...
...state-supported school with an enrollment of 4,000, was a triumph of good sense and planning. When it became obvious that Clemson would be required to accept Gantt, a call for law and order went out from business leaders, churchmen and newspapers all over the state. Convinced that Barnett had "led Mississippi up a blind alley," outgoing Governor Ernest Rollings told his legislature: "We must realize the lesson of 100 years ago and move on for the good of South Carolina and the United States...
...public. But the mayor of Cambridge, Edward A. Crane (Harvard '35), who is also chairman of the school committee, last week provided a controversy of his own. Crane's school board refused to rent the auditorium for a Forum speech by Mississippi's Governor Ross Barnett. "If they want to transfer their bloodshed and death from Oxford to Cambridge," cried Crane, "let them do it on Harvard property...
...mayor suggested that Barnett "be accommodated just as Premier Fidel Castro" was accommodated when the school committee turned him down as a Forum speaker four years ago. Castro ended up in Harvard Stadium, which is pretty nippy in February. "My idea is not to give the fellow the freeze," said Crane, "but I believe that student riots over a controversial character should be put out in a large field so nobody gets hurt...