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...Hearts & Minds. For many years the South', aware that it might be brought under Supreme Court scrutiny, has justified its segregation policy as giving "equal but separate" facilities to white and Negro children. This phrase was used by the court in an 1896 case involving Jim Crow transport. This week's opinion flatly rejected "equal but separate" as a guiding principle in education...
Moscow may crow about its subway system, and Parisiennes make love in the "Metro," but nobody likes the MTA. Armed with a home-town Newspaper, the pedestrian has merely to descend into the Harvard Square station to reason why: the price of a ride has risen to twenty cents...
Emergency Measure. In Billings, Mont., explaining why he had been arrested five times for drunkenness this year, Paul Rides-the-Horse, 28, a Crow Indian, told the judge that he had merely been following a friend's toothache remedy: "Keep whisky on the tooth at all times...
George Walcott: House Committee; Freshman Crew Squad; Varsity Crow Squad; Blood Drive; Combined Charities Drive, House Captain; Dramatics; House Squash; PBH Junior Usher; Student Advisor...
Although Jim Crow still applies in most Southern communities, even there the breakthrough is felt. Pentagon files tell of Southern restaurants being opened to Negro soldiers in uniform, and of white Southern families inviting Negro servicemen home to dinner or for a weekend. A significant then-ν.-now example of the social change: on Aug. 13, 1906, Negro soldiers of the 25th Infantry Regiment rode into Brownsville, Texas, a hotbed of racial disorder, shooting into homes where people lay sleeping, killing a bartender, wounding a policeman. Brownsville did not forget quickly-but last year the First Presbyterian Church of Brownsville...