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...Nashville, Tenn., the desegregation effort took a reverse twist. Three children of white professors at Fisk University were refused admission to the Pearl elementary school (for Negroes). A Negro city councilman, Alexander Looby, promptly announced that he would file suit to compel the school board to admit them...
...Communists for one easily comprehensible reason: the Communists are strong, the West is weak, and the Communists are winning. 'It is not a matter of mind or heart or preference,' explained one weary Frenchman. 'It is simply a matter of safety.' Said a dejected Vietnamese councilman: 'The people do not like the Viet Minh. But what can they...
Home Defense. In Napa, Calif., when city officials met to consider James Chadwick's request to be allowed to keep 100 racing pigeons in a residential zone, Councilman Joseph Greco declared: "Pigeons proved valuable during the last war . . . It wouldn't be smart to hold down such a constructive effort...
...course there are rogues among them, but American politicians need not be ashamed of their station in life nor of their efforts to seek it; for it is they, from the village councilman to the President of the U.S., who have built and sustained the American Government in its present eminence...
...Councilman Taylor's motion, said another Laborite, was "a dirty, saucy attack." Was it his "business to introduce the filthy system of McCarthyism here? Dr. Nunn May has served a prison * for his crime. How many more sentences must he serve? Turn this wicked resolution into a vote of confidence in Dr. Broda!" By acclamation, the council voted to turn down Taylor's motion and keep...