Word: faubusing
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...nine (one in Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal to be worth...
...Tammany Chief Carmine De Sapio humbled Harriman, rumbled through his own personal choice for the U.S. Senate nomination, New York District Attorney Frank Hogan (TIME, Sept. 8). Harlem's powerful Congressman Adam Clayton Powell Jr., is running on both tickets and, particularly in the wake of Democrat Orval Faubus' antics, could conceivably switch 30,000 Harlem votes to the Republicans. A final special advantage: many a New York bloc, e.g., Negroes, plus liberals, art lovers, medical men and the churches, recognize a longstanding debt to the Rockefeller philanthropies, may be moved to pay it at the polls...
...press conference called by Arkansas' Governor Orval E. Faubus one day last week, the Rev. M. L. Moser Jr. of Little Rock, Ark. read a statement signed by 80 ministers...
...calculated it was. The picture was a fake, staged by a squat, bombastic Little Rock haberdasher named James ("Jimmy the Flash") Karam, the man who spurred on anti-Negro mobs for Governor Orval Faubus last fall (TIME, Oct. 7, 1957). Under Karam's direction, a taxicab deposited the Negroes, identified as James Howard and family, near the Hall High School at 8:40 on the morning of the balloting on the issue of segregated v. integrated schools...
Karam gave an order: "Get 'em over in front of the school." On hand were the United Press International's Charlie McCarty (TIME, Sept. 29), who had been tipped off about the story, and a photographer from the Faubus-fawning Arkansas Democrat. The two photographers needed only five minutes to get their pictures of the Negroes and their sign pleading for equality. "Let's get the hell out of here," barked Karam, and the Negroes hurried...