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...running for Governor in 1958, Wallace did not campaign as a diehard defender of segregation, but as a candidate who would work to bolster Ala bama's economy, build better schools and better highways. He was defeated in the Democratic primary by John Patterson (TIME cover, June 2, 1961), who did run on an all-out segregationist plat form. In that defeat Wallace learned a lesson. "They just out-segged me," he said to friends. "They're never going to do that again...
...Speaking the Truth." Four Alabama cities-Tuskegee, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville-were scheduled to start token public school integration. Even Birmingham, long a national symbol of diehard segregationist sentiment, now seemed resigned. "Few of us are happy," wrote the Birmingham Post-Herald, "but we trust that the people of Alabama will face up to their court-ordered responsibilities with a good grace and without violence." Said the Birmingham News: "Our school officials have looked at the problem from every angle. They are speaking the truth: there's nothing to do but keep schools open and do what the courts...
...streets bodies of executed Moslem prisoners as a warning. After leaving Algeria, he grew a beard and shuttled anonymously between Italy, Germany and Switzerland. Argoud had already been sentenced to death in absentia for his part in the 1961 Generals' Putsch, and, as a member of the diehard Council of National Resistance, is believed to have ordered the attempted assassination of De Gaulle at Petit-Clamart, outside Paris, last year...
...that it makes it virtually impossible to ascertain exactly how many students are involved in precisely what cliques or even more important, how many students are influenced. Cal is most certainly not of the Mid-western breed--there are no football idols and there is certainly not as much diehard campus spirit. Berkeley is sophisticated enough to avoid such conformity...
...third quarter was a stalemate; in the fourth quarter, the Crimson got fired up. With captain Tony Davies barking signals, and fullback Lou Williams joining the attack, the Crimson put on a diehard press for the Penn goal. Four times the ball landed in the mire before the Penn goal, but Crimson players failed to dig it out in time...