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...four months, blonde, Tampa-born Dr. Deborah Coggins, 32, served as the first woman health officer of Florida's Madison. Taylor and Jefferson counties. One day last August, she was consulting with Ethel Kirkland, who is in charge of the Florida State Board of Health's mid wife training program. Dr. Coggins suggested that they carry on business over their lunch. Because Ethel Kirkland is a Negro, Dr. Coggins carefully asked the manager of the Madison Hotel (allwhite) restaurant if they could use a private room; the manager did not object, and neither did anybody else except...
...increased since integration (in many cases they had). He also extracted testimony about molestation of white girls, about thefts and fights. But not all the testimony bolstered the subcommittee's thesis that integration is a proven failure. After Hugh Smith, white principal of the formerly all-white Jefferson Junior High School (now 55% Negro) had testified on falling academic standards, Gerber asked if he had not originally "thought well of integration." "I still do," said Smith firmly. He added that successful integration would probably take a decade, but that conditions are already improving...
...Différence. In Detroit, embarrassed because her first name sounded too masculine, Mrs. Eddie Jefferson petitioned to have it changed to Billie...
...book among the thousands, however, is a subversive tome entitled The Communist Dream. Bette never lets it go into circulation without warning the borrower of its deleterious effects, but she is disturbed when the city council tells her to put it in the ashcan. "What," wonders Bette, "would Thomas Jefferson say to a request like this?" She refuses, and more in sorrow than anger the city council fires...
Lost in the Desert Sands. Nehru's increasing influence in Southeast Asia has been matched by a growing disenchantment with him in the U.S. In the beginning, the U.S. greeted Indian independence in 1947 with pleasure. Thoreau and Jefferson, cried the cheerleaders, had inspired India's rebels. Nehru, said Pundit Walter Lippmann, is "certainly the greatest figure in Asia...