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...story of the South's desegre- gation is sometimes told in violence and often in warming progress; there is news of legal skirmishes and noise of rebel yells. But mostly, there is a story of individuals-white and black, leaders and followers. TIME has recorded this story week by week, and also turned the spotlight on its leaders: on Negro Lawyer Thurgood Marshall (Sept. 19, 1955), who did much to win a major battle for his people before the Supreme Court, and on Mississippi's Senator James O. Eastland (March 26), whose tradition and training have...
...remainder of the action takes poor Susannah on a descending spiral through rejection by the townsfolk, false betrayal by the local idiot, seduction by the evan gelist himself, humiliation by the congre gation, and the eventual murder (by her brother) of her seducer. The grim tale ends on an ambiguous note with Susannah laughing hysterically...
...grandparents were peasants, his father was an artillery officer, and Henri Petiot began life as a bright young man with an academic future. He majored simultaneously in law, geography and history at the University of Grenoble, took the equivalent of an M.A. in each, won his agrégation (slightly higher than Ph.D.) at 21. He became a lycée professor in Neuilly, continued teaching until 1945. His first book, a volume of essays called Notre Inquiétude, was published in 1926. He signed it Daniel-Rops-the name he had invented for a character...
...hurt. Next morn ing Pavone resigned. Foreign Minister Pic cioni sent his resignation to Scelba, and it seemed likely that Scelba would accept it. Scelba appointed Minister Without Portfolio Raffaele de Caro, a Liberal, to make a full investigation, ordered Montagna's passport lifted, and an investi gation of Montagna's income-tax returns. Montagna, silent up till then, threatened to start talking. "I may cause the end of the world," he pouted...
...shortage of teachers, for few professions in France are so poorly paid. Average salaries run from $85 a month for primary schoolteachers to $300 for full-fledged university professors. As a result, says Deputy Charles Viatte, "each year practically all the professors who receive their agrégation in physics immediately abandon the teaching profession. The agrégation is the degree which normally should lead them to teach in lycées and universities, but industry offers them salaries which are three times higher than university pay." Added a spokesman for the teachers' federation: "Our teachers . . . make less...