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...Arkansas, Federal Judge Ronald Davies voided an injunction forbidding Little Rock (pop. 117,000), the most important of five Arkansas communities to begin integration, to allow 15 to 20 Negroes into the white Central High School. The injunction had been handed down by Chancellor Murray Reed of the State Chancery Court after a hearing on a petition filed by the secretary of the newly formed pro-segregationist League of Central High Mothers. Reason for the chancellor's decision: witnesses, including Governor Orval Faubus, testified that integration would inevitably mean violence...
SEAWAY BATTLE over St. Lawrence will flare up again next month when U.S. and Canadian governments begin work on setting toll rates. Eastern businessmen, railroadmen, truckers and shippers (who originally opposed seaway, now favor it) have formed 22-state group to fight for high tolls, which would make Midwestern ports less competitive. But Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association is lobbying hard for rock-bottom tolls in first years of the seaway to attract new business...
...call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people march forward, they are bound to stumble. But we have gone forward in this...
...Saarinen and M.I.T.'s Pietro Belluschi, enthusiastically praised the originality and appropriateness of the chapel. The House, by a vote of 102 to 53, took a stand against the architects. Next day the House reversed itself and approved the building, 147 to 83. This week the Senate will begin to make its esthetic judgment of the chapel, with strong emphasis on the beauty of $3,000,000 in economy-minded...
DEFENSE CUTBACKS will begin to pinch oil producers. To keep under Administration's $38 billion defense budget ceiling, armed forces will cut purchases of petroleum products by as much as $170 million a year-a 15% drop. Aviation fuel, special Navy fuel oils will get deepest cuts...