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Maryland. Baltimore undertook integration promptly after the Supreme Court's decision, and counties soon began following along. After the southernmost county on the Western Shore admitted Negroes to white schools last fortnight, only two counties out of 23 remained 100% segregated...
Arkansas. All eight tax-supported colleges are open to Negroes, and as the new semester began a fortnight ago, about 50 Negroes in ten districts had enrolled in white elementary and high schools. Things seemed peaceful enough-until Governor Orval Faubus called out the National Guard...
...weeks India's usually loquacious Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been uncommonly silent on his favorite subject: foreign affairs. In New Delhi a fortnight ago, where the All-India Congress Committee was meeting, Nehru managed to get through 2% full days of handshaking and speechifying without once mentioning foreign affairs. Last week, before the Lower House of India's Parliament, Nehru finally spoke on foreign affairs, but confined himself for the most part to a discussion of problems directly affecting India, e.g., Pakistan, Goa, Kashmir. On Hungary, which the 'Indian delegation will in effect ignore when...
Muzzle-Loaders & Missionaries. Fortnight ago, as Berber tribesmen from Rif peaks shot off ancient muzzle-loaders and sent up wild, ululating cries of jubilation, Morocco's King Mohammed toured the Unity Road, found it navigable, though rough, for its entire length of 35 miles...
...expected, the word brought an outraged howl from United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who only a fortnight ago demanded an "anti-inflation" cut of $100 on 1958 cars (TIME, Sept. 2). Thunderbird Reuther, announcing an appeal to President Eisenhower "to exert his great persuasive charm" on the "irresponsibility" of the automakers: "You can increase wages and cut prices and make money if production is increased...