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Schools open all over the country, except for the South. "We made so much progress last year, that we though we'd just set a while and catch our breath," Gov. Faubus says.... Harvard's tuition goes up again. President Pusey warns that he will tolerate no harassment of "our little feathered brothers." Cardinal Cushing agrees, and calls the pigeons "Massachusetts' finest...
...most serious opposition since he defeated Senator Hattie Caraway and Governor Homer Adkins in 1944. Democratic Representative Dale Alford, who went to Washington two years ago as an effective segregationist vote getter, has been redistricted out of his seat and has ambitions for Fulbright's. Governor Orval Faubus, finishing a record fourth term as Governor, might be tempted by the larger scope of Washington. Both Alford and Faubus would campaign against Fulbright by calling him a one-worlder who has traveled altogether too far from the pea patch. Already, Fulbright is known caustically as "the Senator from Timbuctoo...
...Southern Governors' Conference in Nashville, where Tennessee's racially moderate Buford Ellington beat out Arkansas' diehard segregationist Orval Faubus for the chairmanship, a reporter asked South Carolina Governor Ernest Hollings how he felt about N.A.A.C.P. Special Counsel Thurgood Marshall's recent appointment as a federal judge. Replied Hollings resignedly: "I'm just glad Martin Luther King doesn't have a law degree...
Wirges also discovered who ran the county machine: Marlin Hawkins, 47, a paunchy, cigar-chomping native son, who is a per sonal friend of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus and has been Conway County sheriff since 1950. Another Wirges discovery: after every county election, special election deputies, appointed by Hawkins, carried the ballot boxes to the courthouse (a common practice in Arkansas...
...Africans refused to be insulted. Said Political Scientist Fred Savage, 30, of Sierra Leone: "I realized that since Faubus is a politician not motivated by scruples, he would say anything to make his point." Most real racists refused to see the Africans at all. "I do not believe in integrated meetings of any kind," said Little Rock Segregationist Amis Guthridge. In New Orleans, White Citizens Council Leader Sam Irwin Huffed that the Africans "come down here with closed minds. They're bigots...