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ARLINGTON, VA. (pop. 178,500), historic site of Robert E. Lee's mansion, National Cemetery with graves of Civil War generals, and of 3,802 Negro refugees from Confederacy, Tomb of Unknown Soldier World Wars I and II; a pleasant bedroom suburb of Washington, D.C.; many Federal Government workers from North, many new white refugees from Washington's integrated school system, now 73% Negro...
Eleven out of the 30 Negroes were turned down, said the school board, because they did not live within white-school-area boundaries as interpreted by the school board. Five Negroes trying to get into Washington-Lee High School, turned down because Washington-Lee is overcrowded (which it is), were sent back not to nearby white schools, but back to the all-Negro school they came from. Twenty-one Negroes were turned down because their academic achievement was inadequate-whereupon the N.A.A.C.P.'s lawyers pointed out that one rejected Negro had an IQ of 126-137, another...
...start." Throughout, the chamber sat quiet, the justices immobile, Thurgood Marshall with a slight scowl. Little Rock's Superintendent Virgil Blossom and Arkansas' Democratic Senator William Fulbright (on hand as a friend of the court to ask for more time in Little Rock) staring somberly ahead. Lee Rankin continued: "I am confident that as the years go by, the people of the South will realize that they have a stake in each American citizen being a full citizen . . . The basic question-all there really is in the case-is whether or not we stand as a Government...
...week. Orders to accept five Negro pupils in Arlington's schools (total enrollment: some 9,000 students) were handed down last year by U.S. District Judge Albert V. Bryan. These five, plus some of 25 more recent applicants, hope to get into Arlington's schools, including Washington-Lee High School, scheduled to open this week. If they do, Virginia's white-maned Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. is required by Virginia law (which he ordered framed and passed) to shut down the schools, cut off all state funds...
Died. Lieut. General John C. H. Lee, U.S.A. (ret.), 71, General Eisenhower's chief supply officer in the European Theater of Operations during World War II, who implemented the fabulous air and sea operation that kept U.S. troops on the Continent supplied with food and the material of war; of a coronary occlusion; in York, Pa. After the war, hard-driving "Courthouse" Lee commanded the Mediterranean Theater from headquarters in Italy, survived loud accusations in the press that he abused his authority by inflating rank's privileges. Following his retirement in 1947, Lee became active among the laity...