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...legal and political maneuvering, many white Southerners are now prepared to compromise and try integrated education. Basic attitudes toward blacks may have changed little, but pragmatic considerations are overshadowing them. Thus the few Southern leaders who continue to rant racism get less of a hearing than before. Georgia Governor Lester Maddox, for example, denounced the "Gestapo" from Washington and urged parents to ignore their children's transfers to desegregated schools. He got some followers in Stockbridge, but authorities there insisted that the children attend their assigned schools. Attempted white boycotts in Augusta, Ga., and Richmond, Va., failed...
...DAVID LESTER...
...stars continue to have bad luck in films. Musical showcases like Woodstock display them to good musical advantage, but when called upon to act, react or recite a line, they generally perform like stumbling automatons. The Beatles-thanks to the brilliance of Director Richard Lester-managed to escape. But it happened to Elvis, it happened to Sinatra at first, and it is happening now to Mick Jagger, rock's reigning Rolling Stone, who is currently on view in a couple of hapless films...
Georgia Governor Lester Maddox wanted to ride atop the train to prove its cargo safe. The mayor of Macon, Ga., Ronnie Thompson, has vowed to use force, if necessary, to keep it from passing through his city. A Pentagon spokesman insists that the chances of "catastrophe" are virtually zero, yet the Army is quietly stockpiling quantities of a lifesaving antidote along the proposed route. The British Foreign Office (representing the government of the Bahamas) has questioned the wisdom of the plan...
...Nijinsky has raced exclusively in England and Ireland and he has never lost. For his tenth victory, a race against all the best older horses in England. Nijinsky sauntered by his foes with remarkable ease while the best rider in Europe, Lester Piggot, pulled hard on the reins...