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...Nasser's flirtation with Russia, and his cosying up to Pakistan's No. 1 enemy, Nehru's India. Last week, when a New York Times reporter made the conventional assumption, in the form of a question, that all of Asia and Africa stood behind Nasser, forthright Hussein Suhrawardy compressed his reply-and his current opinion of Egypt-into one word: "Phooey...
Peace of a sort had come to Clinton itself. Clinton High School, forced by violence to close the previous week, was open again. Negro children walked to school unescorted, attended class unmolested. From Anderson County Attorney Eugene Joyce, 38, came one of the most forthright Southern law-enforcement performances thus far in the desegregation struggle. Facing students in the Clinton High School auditorium, Joyce said: "I have beesn asked and directed by the Board of Education to come before you and tell you what the Board of Education and what the faculty of this school expect...
Club Without Bylaws. Virginia's shrewd, courtly Harry Byrd became governor in 1926. He promptly sponsored a forthright antilynching law (Virginia retains today a poll tax that works not so much against Negroes as against non-Byrd-organized outlanders. who often forget to ante up in time). Byrd also spurned easy, inflationary financing in favor of a pay-as-you-go road plan (tourists in Virginia, who bring in $600 million a year, still drive comfortably along Byrd-planned highways). After Harry Byrd went to the U.S. Senate in 1933, his followers continued to give Virginia good government...
...John Carroll (Colo.) and Frank Church (Ida.). He said that perhaps he would receive an appointment to the Banking and Currency Committee, where he would specialize in urban re-development, slum clearance, and housing. He expressed doubt that he would be placed on the Judiciary Committee, because of his forthright civil rights position...
Long a "pushover for the literary strivings of small children," Smith decided to collect other samples and put them into a book. The result: Write Me a Poem, Baby (Little, Brown; $2.95), which tells quite a bit about the forthright world of children. To get his material, Smith culled magazines, wrote teachers, interviewed parents. His literature covers letters, short stories, poems, essays and notes passed in class. He even included the early efforts of some literary lions. At six, for instance, Novelist Jean Stafford wrote an ode to gravel...