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...Lull. The following morning, Governor Barnett was scheduled to appear before the Court of Appeals in New Orleans to answer to charges of contempt. As was expected, he stayed in Mississippi. The court tried him in absentia, found him guilty, gave him four days to "purge himself" of the contempt, and set a stern penalty if he failed to comply: $10,000-a-day fine, and confinement in the custody of the U.S. Attorney General...
There the conflict rested, in a brief and precarious lull. President Kennedy decided to go on TV with a speech reporting to the nation on the Mississippi crisis. Then he ordered 1,500 U.S. Army troops to stand by in Memphis, and put the Mississippi National Guard into federal service-for use if needed. A threat of serious violence still lurked ahead, but Barnett had reason to try to avoid it. He had already made himself a hero to his fellow Mississippians, and except for the fanatics, they could hardly expect or want him to carry on any further...
Blood & Starvation. In 1775, a year of lull before the years of Indian raids and counterraids began again, the average settler (perhaps, like Daniel Boone, a "long hunter" turned family man) lived in "a stump-dotted clearing of two or three acres in a one-room, earthen-floored cabin which had just taken the place of last year's half-faced camp." His possessions were what he had made himself or carried on his back from civilization. If he had had a cow, he had butchered her that winter to save his family from starving. He could count...
...adequate base of pure research, but it has just not been applied," says Economist J. J. McSweeny, Sperry's director of long-range planning. Scientists point out that it often takes decades for research to translate itself into standard-of-living goods, and right now there is a lull. The man who led the development of the U-2 spy plane, Lockheed Vice President Kelly Johnson, says: "We are not lacking in the capability to invent. Where we have trouble is in the incentive to invent." Raising the Rewards. With much fanfare, corporations have been tinkering for years with...
...fill her thrice-weekly columns for the Star (plus her once-a-week national column, now in 75 papers), Betty goes to 500 parties a year, avoids so much as a sip of wine for fear it will lull her into missing a story. Most of her parties are loaded with diplomats, and she prepares for them by studying the news carefully; she is always alert for the informed conversation that will give her a hard news story. "Getting anything out of the people who are the news of the day is the most important thing," she says...