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Southern segregationists suffered another rebuff last week from the Supreme Court. Last fall, in Holmes v. Alexander, the court told 33 Mississippi school districts to desegregate "at once." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit carried out that order by giving the districts only until Dec. 31. But when 16 more districts in six Southern states came up for consideration last month, the Fifth Circuit faltered; it gave those districts, and by implication the rest of the South, until next fall to integrate student bodies. Last week the Supreme Court knocked down the "next fall" provision and ordered...
...With Sullivan v. The New York Times, the Supreme Court determines that a public official cannot be libeled by comment on his official conduct...
...LIFE publishes exposé of Supreme Court Justice Fortas...
...Supreme Court outlaws required school prayer and Bible reading...
...economist at the Agriculture Department, Sullivan assumed that Freeman's lease entitled him to join the club. Instead, the club barred the Negro tenant. When Sullivan protested, the club barred him too. Sullivan was angry enough to join Freeman in fighting the case up to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. They lost: the judges upheld a lower-court ruling that Little Hunting Park was a private club, and was thus free to restrict the pool to whites...