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...college and high school students, in classrooms where TIME is used, are among those trying to outguess TIME'S editors. For those who got it wrong, we will confide that the leading nominations from readers (though not in this order) were U Thant, Kennedy, Mrs. Roosevelt, James Meredith, Castro, Adlai Stevenson, and the man who on this week's cover is proclaimed...
While Student James Meredith hangs on at the University of Mississippi,* other Negroes are girding to breach all-white public campuses in Alabama and South Carolina, the only states that still have totally segregated public education. The top targets...
...nominate James Meredith, of course; for a difficult, thankless, but necessary task, accomplished with consummate dignity and inspiring courage...
...even dreamed of it." Barnett had just been informed that the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ordered the Department of Justice to bring criminal contempt charges against him and his lieutenant governor, Paul B. Johnson Jr.. for their part in obstructing the entrance of Negro James Meredith to the University of Mississippi. Barnett may have been dismayed by the news, but he could hardly have been surprised ; as a highly successful lawyer in private life, he must have known that the federal court would not forgive his defiance of its orders...
...week's end. the grand jury returned its report-which was of predictable content. The U.S. deputy marshals who had been assigned to protect Meredith, it said, committed "many cruel and inhuman acts of violence." It commended Mississippi's state cops for "dedicated action." The encirclement of the Ole Miss administration building by marshals "was apparently done for the sole purpose of agitating and provoking violence,'' and Chief Marshal McShane's order to fire tear gas "was done for the purpose of inciting a riot." The jury then returned sealed indictments against two people. From...