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...whether or not they have any skis; or boots; or poles-those who do invariably wind up in Stillman any-way-but what does matter is whether or not they have a sexy pair of ski-pants (If they're Radcliffe students) or a couple of bottles of Old Crow (if they're Harvard men). After all, the word "skiing" in the vocabulary of the normal red-blooded American doesn't usually fit Webster's definition-it means something different to every "skier...
...summer day in 1948 William C. Chance, an aging Negro high-school principal, got aboard an Atlantic Coast Line railway coach in Philadelphia, bound for his home in Parmele, N.C. When the train crossed into Virginia, the conductor asked Principal Chance to move into a Jim Crow car for the rest of his ride. Chance refused, was taken off the train at Emporia, Va. and arrested for disorderly conduct. He sued for $25,000 damages...
...Line suggested that it may apply only to a Negro who gets on a train in the North, but not to one who gets aboard in a state requiring segregation. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People promptly promised a broader suit directed not only against Jim Crow cars in interstate transportation, but also against segregation in any public carrier, whether operating across state lines...
...policy, such as it is, is to protest apartheid (racial segregation) laws by a peaceful "civil disobedience" campaign, which they hope will catch the eye of the U.N.* Since the campaign started last June, 26,000 "passive resisters," black, half-white and brown, have been jailed for defying Jim Crow laws. Desperately, James Njongwe pleaded for both sides to "get together round a table to find a peaceful solution." It is late for that, and the will seems to be lacking. Communist agitators now preach racial class war in the teeming black locations, and their influence is growing in direct...
...months ago, the South African judges' bold rebuff to Malan's Jim Crow laws might have stopped him cold; now, with most of South Africa's 2,500,000 whites demanding more, not less apartheid, Malan is in position to go to the country for a new election and win the necessary two-thirds constitutional majority to do what he likes with anyone whose skin is not white...