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...crowds, and he didn't like the painters, the paint, or the whole operation. It upset his delicate psyche bringing on a three ton sulk and positive loss of appetite. Zoo officials, frantic at the prospect of Harry's demise, called off the painters and the St. Louis Post Dispatch was full of Harry's glory for days...
...every case of threatened infringement of academic freedom ends on a sad note. Often lucid men acting with dispatch effectively challenge attempts to curb free expression. Such is the instance in the argument between the Hall County Farm Bureau and Professor C. Clyde Mitchell of the University of Nebraska, in which the professor's right to state his opinions was forcefully defended by his university...
...Court's decision against segregation in the public schools. St. Louis took the first step by removing the color line in its special schools for handicapped children. White and Negro pupils arrived in the same buses, started the year, without incident. "Similar experiences," said the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "are occurring throughout Missouri ... In Little Dixie [central Missouri], 52 Negroes enrolled for high school at Fulton. In the heart of the Bootheel cotton country, 20 attended classes at formerly white schools in Sikeston . . . Time is running out on race discrimination in this America. Missouri at least can tell time...
...Japan, where the literacy rate is probably the highest in the world (98%), newspapers are big and often sensational. For a story that may make bright reading, it is not unusual for editors to dispatch their own planes, huge task forces of reporters and hundreds of carrier pigeons to bring bulletins back...
...Washington, the President invited Russell to the White House for dinner, and Mrs. Lincoln sent bouquets. Secretary of State Seward had him round for whist, showed him the day's confidential dispatch to the U.S. Minister in London, and painstakingly explained...