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...evacuated to the countryside, where he was given the privileges of living in a corrugated-iron hut and attending school with six other boys and 65 girls. By the time the two of them met a couple of decades later at Cambridge, their thoughts had somehow acquired a satirical hue. Written down, polished, and delivered onstage with maniacal precision, their reflections on the state of the world have fetched Hendra and Ullett all the way to the colonies, to three guest shots so far on Ed Sullivan's TV show, and currently to an imposing seven-month...
...opponents anticipated. He has promised to appoint Negroes to state boards and -while insisting that "these colored people won't be involved in our social life"-says that as Governor he would "treat all minority groups fairly." Textile Millionaire Callaway is a segregationist himself, though of a subtler hue. He claims that a Maddox victory would be a blow to the state "from which it may never recover," pleaded before a Rotary Club meeting in the tobacco town of Douglas last month: "Which one is going to bring in industry? Who do you want going up to Washington representing...
...they cast 100,000 votes for the balding bigot, enough to give Maddox a startling 430,000-to-360,000 victory. As a result, liberals and Negroes next month are expected to either support a write-in candidate or vote for Callaway, himself a segregationist but of a subtler hue than Maddox. Thus the G.O.P. has every chance of electing its first Georgia Governor since...
...fall's first week, the air was astir with talk of peace: pleas, proposals, propaganda of every hue. The dialogue yielded little hope of any quick, clean end to the conflict. It did, however, produce the most comprehensive, reasonable, and unequivocal statement of American policy to date...
...University of Texas campus. There, from Austin's tallest edifice, the visitor commands an extraordinary view of the 232-acre campus, with its green mall and red tile roofs, of the capital, ringed by lush farm lands, and, off to the west, of the mist-mantled hills whose purple hue prompted Storyteller O. Henry to christen Austin the "City of a Violet Crown." Whitman had visited the tower ten days before in the company of a brother, and had taken it all in. Today, though, he had no time for the view; he was too intent upon his deadly work...