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...Student Council was Stephe L. Pehl '62, Chairman; Michael Hornblow '62 and Mare J. Roberts '64, Council members; William E. Bailey '62, Chairman of the Dunster House Committee; James T. Halverson '62, Chairman of the Adams House Committee, John A. Hodges '62, Chairman of the Eliot House Committee, and Barnett M. Frank '61-4, former Council member...
...Democratic ranks, they unveiled a resolution calling on all the Governors to exercise leadership at home in securing civil rights. Southern Democrats reacted predictably. Alabama's John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2) came out of the surf to write a 20-page protest. Mississippi's Ross Barnett threatened to take off his aloha shirt and go home...
...President's Berlin policy. In the same spirit, they dropped their plan to embarrass Democrats further over civil rights. "We had a choice," explained one, "between voting for our resolution and bleeding before the world all over again on this question by giving international headlines to Barnett and Patterson." The G.O.P. went along with a mushy compromise calling vaguely for leadership in "protecting American principles." Everybody could vote for that. Everybody did. Then everybody went swimming in a clear, cool Hawaiian lagoon...
Yale's Revenge. After the church riot, Bobby Kennedy urged the Freedom Riders to go slowly. But the Freedom Riders in Montgomery were determined to push on to New Orleans by way of Mississippi, a state ruled by Governor Ross Barnett, who had once declared: "The Negro is different because God made him different to punish him." Barnett, noting well what had happened in Alabama, assured Attorney General Kennedy that Mississippi would protect the students from violence. Kennedy was deciding to trust Barnett and withhold federal forces from Mississippi when he got word that still another integrated bus contingent...
...Morris escape was the last straw for the Mississippi Penitentiary Board, which tried to fire Reformer Jones. But Governor Barnett defended his man in the Morris episode. Asked he: "If you can't trust a trusty, who can you trust?" Last week, even before Morris was recaptured, the board gave way to Barnett's pressure, rescinded its decision: Jones would remain-although obviously on terms of good behavior...