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COVERING the news in Little Rock last week was an experience that TIME'S correspondents will not soon forget. Three TIME reporters-Dallas Bureau Chief Bill Rappeleye, Chicago Correspondents Burt Meyers and Jack Olsen-were marked men, thanks to Governor Orval Faubus, who blamed TIME for many of his self-made troubles in a radio-TV broadcast the week before. Reported Burt Meyers: "We found frequent references being made to TIME, few, if any, complimentary -and some were downright bloodthirsty. But we kept our mouths shut, dodged any questions about our connections and kept out of trouble." Even...
More Drastic Talk. Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus was not one of these. He had drawn the battle lines. President Eisenhower had patiently tried to avoid direct conflict, but when forced to the issue, he had acted quickly and decisively (see below). Now, at week's end Faubus -like Joe McCarthy before him-was trying to regain the initiative by even more drastic talk, slandering his political opponents, and musing about the possibility of calling a special session of the Arkansas legislature to abolish the public school system. And the President of the U.S. would return to Washington this...