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Died. Henderson Lovelace Lanham, 69, U.S. Representative from Georgia since 1947, who viewed himself as a "progressive without being a radical"; when his car collided with a train; in Rome, Ga...
...which his state might get back into step with the rest of the nation industrially, socially, politically, emotionally. This time Faubus had crossed up not only the President of the U.S. but four Southern governors who had worked tirelessly since the recent Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga. to find an acceptable peace formula. One of these Southern governors, a Southern-born, Southern-reared Democrat, considered Faubus' latest move and threw up his hands. "We had a very clear understanding with this guy," he said. "He's emotionally unbalanced, I guess. There's no other...
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...Faubus had thus staked his political future on his claim that there would be violence in Little Rock. Almost single-handed he had created the reality of violence from its myth. After withdrawing his National Guard, he had taken off for the Southern Governors' Conference at Sea Island, Ga., stopping on the way to see the Georgia-Texas football game at Atlanta. ("He's really lapping up the glory," said one of his fellow governors. "There were 33,000 people at the game, and every time they cheered a play, Faubus stood up and bowed.") The next night...
...mailed his four Air Medals and six battle stars to the President for distribution among the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division. In Columbia, S.C., Governor George Bell Timmerman Jr. resigned his commission in the U.S. Naval Reserve so that he could not be called into service. In Albany, Ga., persons unknown set fire to two buildings on the campus of the Albany State College (for Negroes), caused an estimated $300,000 in damages...