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Arkansas was a question mark. There seemed little reason to expect trouble. But TIME'S Washington bureau reported disquieting rumors about the plans of Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus. To Little Rock went Chicago Bureau Correspondent Jack Olsen, an old Arkansas hand (he reported the story of Arkansas' industrial development, TIME, March 11, and the cover story of Senator John McClellan, TIME, May 27). In a pet cliche of Governor Faubus, a stitch in time saved nine. Olsen was one of the first out-of-state newsmen to arrive in Little Rock, the only one present when...
...Faubus version of crisis in Little Rock was open to immediate doubt. Arkansas does not have a record of racial violence: the state university at Fayetteville was quietly integrated in 1948; during the very week that Little Rock was supposed to explode, three other Arkansas communities-Ozark, Fort Smith and Van Buren-integrated without a murmur. Furthermore, bus integration is a statewide fact, and Little Rock's white and Negro citizens have become accustomed to their Negro policemen...
...where another kind of man held power that the worst trouble came. In Arkansas, a slightly sophisticated hillbilly named Orval Faubus took hapless note of his power as governor and forcibly kept the Negro children out of Little Rock's Central High School. There was no reasonable explanation for Governor Faubus' highhanded action, except that he hoped to make political capital for himself. But in the long run, he could not hope to win. He was face to face with the power of the U.S. Government, and that Government could not possibly ignore or withdraw in the face...
What had happened? Little Rock soon got an answer-of sorts. At 10:05 p.m. Arkansas' Democratic Governor Orval Faubus, a backwoods politician turned Dapper Dan (see box), marched into the studio of station KTHV for a television appearance he had scheduled within the hour. Cried Faubus: "Now that a federal court has ruled that no further litigation is possible before the forcible integration of Negroes and whites in Central High School tomorrow, the evidence of discord, anger and resentment has come to me from so many sources as to become a deluge!" To hear Faubus tell it, Little...
When the dawn of integration day came, the Faubus fabric was even more tattered. His early-morning "March of the Mothers'' at Central High found only 15 curious bystanders-and one shaggy dog. A check of 21 Little Rock stores disclosed no run whatever on knives or pistols. And the only "caravans" converging on Little Rock were those of National Guard reinforcements called in by Orval Faubus...