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...SHERRON O'CONNOR Charlottesville...
...Drama: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying; fiction: Edwin O'Connor's The Edge of Sadness; nonfiction: Theodore H. White's The Making of the President 1960; history: Lawrence Gibson's The Triumphant Empire; verse: Alan Dugan; music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan...
...runoff: former Circuit Judge George Wallace, 42, who promises that he will go to jail before permitting integrated schools, and Tuscaloosa State Senator Ryan deGraffenried. 37, a racial moderate. If it was any consolation to Folsom. Birmingham's super-segregationist Public Safety Commissioner. Eugene ("Bull") Connor, finished a sorry fifth...
Time to Talk. Many merchants favored negotiations and a possible loosening of the city's strict segregation ordinances. Said the segregationist Birmingham News: "It is time for Birmingham citizens to sit down and talk together." But Connor, running for Governor against popular "Kissin' Jim" Folsom and five other Democrats, is not about to sit down and talk. In retaliation for the boycott, the City Commission cut off city relief payments, most of which go to Negroes; Connor denied a routine permit for a long-planned, house-to-house collection for Miles's rundown library...
...Connor's stand has only added steam to the students' drive. Promised one Negro leader last week: "We can keep it up as long as the white people." Under the students' energetic leadership, Birmingham's Negroes were, for the first time, becoming a community. And some white citizens were recalling the words of Salesman Carl Miller, one of the few Birmingham whites who spoke out last December against the park closings: "We're going to find ourselves with a big empty Birmingham. We won't have a damned thing, but we sure...