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Despite all the discouraging incidents during this second year after the Supreme Court decision, there has been one outstanding event which embodies what we mean by gradualism and moderation: the Montgomery bus boycott. It was a local affair. Local leaders began it, for limited, local goals. It did not even aim at complete integration on busses; it merely sought the right for Negroes to sit in white sections during crowded hours. The NAACP here operated at its best: its local members were acting not as pawns of what appears to many Southerners as a dangerous outside organization, but as respectable...
Acceptance at this one university does not mean, however, that it would be so easy at other institutions in the South. Most southern states have, admittedly, shown a certain willingness to integrate students at the university level. Some, such as Tennessee, have suggested tenative plans for integrating first at the graduate level, and then working down to the college and finally the school level, one grade more each year. But even this scheme, better than nothing, to be sure, does not face the realities of the situation...
This is highly salutary, but what does it mean for those interested in preserving the integrity of the educational institutions and the freedom of the academic mind? Have America's anti-intellectual powers given up, retreated, or lost interest? Or are they simply biding their time? Upon the answer to this question depends the reasonable course for those seeking to preserve education against these attacks...
Cranes need protection, but so do natural resources, and McKay, Eisenhower and a private-power-stacked Federal Power Commission have substituted "partnership" for careful development of hydroelectric potential. "Partnership" is a policy with chameleon tendencies, but essentially it can mean...
Since the 14th, the temperature has been consistently below normal for the month, and the average mean temperature has been a chilly 61.1 degrees, approaching the all time low of 59.3 degrees in September...