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...issue before the Supreme Court last week were two plans-from Clarke County, Ga., and from the district made up of Charlotte. N.C., and surrounding Mecklenburg County-that represent the most exhaustive efforts so far to overcome the South's traditional patterns. Under the plans, which are being challenged by whites, busing and redistricting have entirely eliminated all-black schools. The plans impose roughly the same ratio of each district's racial makeup on each school's enrollment. Both districts had long used busing to enforce segregation. By using it to enforce desegregation, the districts have added...
...reporter for the Biloxi Daily Herald, he probed the city's gambling so effectively that it was finally investigated by Senator Estes Kefauver's peripatetic investigating committee. In 1953, at the Atlanta Constitution, he wrote a devastating exposé of vice and corruption in Hinesville, Ga. Directly or indirectly, his story resulted in so many grand jury indictments (44) of Hinesville's citizens that when Nelson turned up to cover the proceedings, he was mobbed by the townspeople. Spread-eagled across the hood of a car by a deputy sheriff while the locals yelled for his blood...
...captivated Arabs everywhere. He cracked down on pasha society. He limited land ownership to a maximum of 208 acres, decreeing that larger plots be redistributed to the peasants. His goal, he said, was for the fellah to command a higher rate for a day's work than did the ga-moosa (water buffalo). They still do not. The fellah costs 580 a day to hire; the gamoosa...
Nixon said in Savannah, Ga., that world reaction to his proposal was "overwhelmingly good." He said he hoped it would be taken seriously...
...strong majority of white GI's took exception to the protests, including 47 per cent who would either draft or jail the student dissenters. "I'd like to kick them in the ass," said James Pole, a white private from Way-cross, Ga. "They should be made to see how we live and die over here," argued Bennett, "then perhaps they would appreciate college more...