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Change Comes Hard From the deep fissions and hard fusions of the South, where no leading public figure had yet dared affirm the validity of the Supreme Court's desegregation decrees, Florida's Governor LeRoy Collins last week sounded a clear call for reason and conciliation. Said he at ceremonies marking his reinauguration: "It will do us no good whatever to defy the U.S. Supreme Court ... Its decisions are the law of the land. And this nation's strength and Florida's strength are bottomed on the premise that ours is a land...
...With that, LeRoy Collins got down to specifics that went remarkably far for a Southern governor. His central theme: great as is the court's power, it cannot "compel social adjustments," which can only emerge from changes in "the hearts and minds of people." The court itself, he declared, acknowledged this fact in its school decision by recognizing "to a degree local conditions and problems" and thus not making integration "compulsory." Thus "segregation in Florida schools . . . can be expected to prevail for the foreseeable future...
...Gaitskell will give his second speech in Sanders Theater tonight at 8 p.m. on regional problems in Europe, including NATO, as they reflect the over-all problem of "co-existence." Elliott, Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science...
...House, he was trailing 36-year-old Charles Harrison Brown, a polio victim who campaigned with a hillbilly quartet. In the Far West, the gains were made by the Democrats. Montana's 38-year-old Republican Congressman Orvin B. Fjare lost the Second District to State Senator LeRoy Anderson in a campaign that centered around Fjare's opposition to paying the Crow Indians $5,000,000 for the proposed site of the Yellowtail Dam on the Big Horn River...
...Leroy Holmes will provide the music from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. for the big crush in the Dillon Gym. The Big Three Spree is sponsored by the Orange Key, in honor of Princeton's football glories...