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...meeting climaxed a winter of hopeless worry. With a school integration decision pending in federal district court, Atlantans were dead certain that the wool-hat state legislature's massive-resistance laws would lock all city schools next September. But HOPE took hold quickly; in three weeks businessmen were solicited for funds, and chapters were formed in Atlanta and seven other Georgia cities. At last week's rally Editor Meyer left no doubt that HOPE's members prefer at least token integration to locked schools. "This will be called surrender," he said. "I'm not afraid...
Still regarded by some as an unqualified genius and despised by others as a hopeless misfit, the Advanced Placement Sophomore is at least no longer the side-show freak he was in 1955. That fall the first two incoming students were admitted to Sophomore Standing. The 55 A.P. Sophomores this year occupy a definite, if not always uncomplicated, position in the academic picture, and they usually find out soon enough that they are no longer extraordinary...
...those place names around the world which come to mean not a landscape but a problem, few seemed more bound up in hatreds and hopeless intricacies than Cyprus. But after four years of bombings, murders and repression, after 508 deaths and the near collapse of NATO's Eastern wing, the bloody dispute over the British colony of Cyprus last week suddenly moved toward solution...
...Bresson, not long ago named as The Advocate's leader, really didn't need anyone to size him up, cleverly tossed in the requisite bons mots and deliciously designated one of his characters "Fabrice." (Who could ever forget La Chartreuse de Parme!) That the piece was a hopeless tangle of words strewn in a thousand directions, indeed, that few could or would understand its nineteenth century affectations, mattered little. There was a beauty in words...
Last week, convinced by Moscow's silence that quiet diplomacy was hopeless, the U.S. released the transcript of the recording, and with it all the background on all the futile talks. A day later the Air Force buried two unidentified members of the lost crew in Arlington National Cemetery. The four other bodies had been sent to their families for burial. Somewhere in Soviet territory were eleven more Air Force men, all of them, perhaps, dead. If there was any consolation for the U.S., it lay in the fact that the free world now knew how they died...