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Friday, August 16 International Beauty Spectacular (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 45 contestants for the title of Miss International Beauty are backed up by a corps de ballet and original music by Meredith Willson. Live from Long Beach, Calif...
...just goals it seeks." Syndicated Cartoonists Bill Mauldin (Chicago Sun-Times) and Paul Conrad (Denver Post), strong pens for the cause of Negro rights, drew sharp pictorial jabs against the bitter criticism that other Negroes at the N.A.A.C.P. convention in Chicago had thrown at University of Mississippi Student James Meredith because they considered him much too moderate...
...quite unlikely that Barnett will be able to get the courts to go along with him on this one. Mr. Meredith's "inflammatory remarks" consisted of calling for a general boycott of "everything possible" by Mississippi Negroes; he made these remarks in the context of a statement on the death of Medgar Evers, state field secretary of the NAACP. Mr. Meredith was reprimanded by the appropriate Dean and has promised not to do it again. Although it would seem, then, that sufficient disciplinary measures have already been taken, Gov. Barnett apparently is not convinced...
...directive in question was issued to protect Mr. Meredith, not to remove him. Its target was the core of rednecked white supremacists at the university who continue to do their best to incite their fellow students to riot. Mr. Meredith's quite justifiable statement does not legitimately fall within the scope of the directive; even if it does, it is hardly cause for expulsion...
Such was the civil rights climate in Chicago last week that the N.A.A.C.P. and James Meredith, a protege of the organization and only last year a nationwide Negro hero as the only member of his race at the University of Mississippi, started squabbling publicly. Speaking at an N.A.A.C.P. youth meeting, Meredith criticized Negro youth leadership as puerile-and cast doubt on the advisability of a national civil rights march on Washington, scheduled by the N.A.A.C.P. and other Negro organizations for late August. For expressing such sentiments, Meredith was denounced by the N.A.A.C.P. chairman of the evening's session...