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...press conferences, TV appearances and proclamations, Governor Orval Faubus tried hard last week to keep segregationist passions aboil. The presence of federal marshals in Little Rock, he cried, is more serious than the presence last year of federal troops. The marshals "will be met in many situations with a cold fury that did not exist before." When a group of Arkansas' Presbyterian ministers protested the closing of Little Rock's four high schools (TIME, Sept. 22), Southern Baptist Faubus accused them of being leftists, "brainwashed by left-wingers and Communists." Not even a stern protest from Methodist clergymen...
Closed Circuit. But such fulminations could not hide the fact that Faubus, like Virginia's Governor Almond, was having his troubles with citizens who simply wanted the high schools open again, Negroes or no. The first bursts of indignation came when the Little Rock school board interpreted his school-closing order as automatic cancellation of Central High's cherished football schedule. Faubus got out of that by accusing the school board of being integrationist, and the hapless board, already threatened with recall by petition, gave a green light to football practice and the game between Central High...
King, still conscious and calm, was rushed to the Harlem Hospital with the letter opener still in his chest, was soon followed by a score or so of well-wishers and Negro leaders. Also present: fleet-footed Governor Averell Harriman, who was campaigning for re-election in the city when he heard the news. Two and a quarter hours after King was taken to the operating room, a surgeon announced that the blade, narrowly missing the critical aorta near the heart, had been removed and that the victim had a good chance for full recovery. But Harlem's leaders...
...takeoff, and Goldwater lifted the Beech up, over the emerald quiltwork of irrigation land, over the purple Rincon peaks, over the state whose every wrinkle he knows and loves, heading southeast for the first stop of the day in his campaign to defend his U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland...
Meanwhile, back at the statehouse, Old Foe Ernest McFarland, elected Arizona's Governor in 1954, nursed his grudge against Goldwater, never missed a ribbon-cutting, a chance to wave at a gathering of constituents or shake an Arizona hand. Last week McFarland opened his senatorial campaign in Willcox. where 50,000 Arizonans were conveniently gathered for the Rex Allen Days-two days of homage to Willcox's most prominent son, the movie cowpoke and star of TV's Frontier Doctor. Stalking the vote, addressing every male under 80 as "young man," Ernie paced Haskell Avenue, patting juvenile...