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...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
...GIDEON CROCKETT JOHNSON SILVER SPRINGS...
...newspaper for blacks. Groups of blacks petitioned Anglican authorities to have the transfer rescinded. Huddleston's withdrawal, said Anglican Bishop Richard Ambrose Reeves of Johannesburg, was one of the heaviest blows yet suffered by South Africa's nonwhites. Said the London Daily Mirror: "It is as if Gideon, about to overthrow the altars of Baal, had suddenly been withdrawn to grow watermelons...
...HIDDEN GRAVE, by Peter Hardin (217 pp.; Harper: $2.75), is the story of Gideon, a fortyish, "handsome granite man, huge, subtly balanced." He has cold grey eyes and cropped grey curls. Men bristle with an atavistic hate in his presence, but women lust after him. Why has Gideon come back to a place he has avoided for 20 years? What is the fascinating secret of Helen, now one of the town's leading citizens, who once loved him unreservedly? Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully...
...Fort Worth is one of four major contests of the year, and top students from 16 campuses had come to Fort Worth to take part in it. On the night before, Eddie Fisher went early to his room at the Westbrook Hotel, read a chapter (Judges 7) from the Gideon Bible, turned off the light and tried to sleep...