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...firsthand view of what a nonsegregated school is like, ten white boys and girls from Washington and Baltimore paid a visit to the New Rochelle (N.Y.) High School, where about one-fifth of the 1,610 pupils are Negroes. Their conclusion from the trip, according to one girl: "If ever there was any doubt within me that integration would work, it has been completely dissolved." But the visitors also wanted New Rochelle to know just who was causing all the trouble back home. Said Robert Rodgers of Baltimore's Southern High School: "Don't blame the pupils...
...Manhattan at his own request for reassignment to the Times's city staff, Salisbury was able to answer his critics by writing "for the first time . . without the restrictions of censorship or the fear of it." His 14-part series was not only a well-written, fresh, firsthand report on Russian Communism. It also vividly demonstrated how misleading many of his censored Times stories were. (Wailed Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker: "Why did Salisbury write one thing from Moscow and the opposite from New York?") Explained Salisbury: "[This is] the real story, not the emasculated one that...
...found a three-page cable from Britain's Anthony Eden, reporting his progress in seeking a substitute for EDC and suggesting a nine-power conference this week in London (see FOREIGN NEWS). Dulles' advance man in Europe, Deputy Under Secretary Robert Murphy, sent word recommending a quick firsthand look at the European situation. Dulles decided to go at once. With characteristic speed, he was off again just 54 hours and 21 minutes after landing in Washington...
...product of a staunchly Republican family, Watkins showed his first interest in politics as a follower of Theodore Roosevelt's Bull Moose Party. For four years (1928-33) he served as a district judge. In Washington, as a member of the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, he has had firsthand experience at investigation of Communist infiltration. His family and friends remember only one Watkins statement about McCarthy: "The people of Wisconsin must like him; they elected...
...Little Lunnon." To Colorado's Governor Dan Thornton, the decision was "a dream come true." Scores of towns had fought over the plum; 580 were suggested and 67 were checked firsthand...