Word: mississippi
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Belated Arrests. Nor did the mayhem end when Mississippi Governor Paul Johnson, ignoring protests of several local officials, sent in 150 state troopers. Next day, a number of troopers studiously read newspapers a block away while white rowdies broke windows of four cars carrying Negro youngsters to school, chased and beat the occupants. As tension mounted, the Federal Government mercifully stepped in. At Oxford, Miss., U.S. District Judge Claude Clayton issued a restraining order warning Grenada officials to protect the Negro children or face federal contempt charges. With that, the state troopers surrounded the schools to protect Negro students, thereby...
...Grenada officials attended a hearing in his courtroom, at week's end replaced the restraining order against Grenada officials with a permanent injunction; he also sentenced Constable Carroll to four months in prison for resisting the service of a federal subpoena last July. Governor Johnson, a moderate by Mississippi standards, charged that Grenada's latest violence was an effort to embarrass him politically, and promised that state troopers would remain there as long as necessary. That may be quite a while...
Lovingly restored plantation house, possibly the oldest on the Mississippi. Chef Nick Mosca serves all the New Orleans standards, plus some dishes of his own, notably jumbo shrimp in a hot, garlicky wine sauce...
...prep school for political power in Mississippi is the state university law school. The last four Mississippi Governors studied there; three-fourths of the state's lawyers attended Ole Miss; and there are enough of the school's grads in the Mississippi senate to control all legislation in the state. Ole Miss produced eight of the nine members of the Mississippi Supreme Court and all three of the state's federal district judges, including Claude F. Clayton, who last week firmly ordered do-nothing police to protect Negro schoolchildren from savage white mobs in Grenada...
...Less gregarious than his younger brother, Bobby often broods in solitude at his Senate desk, sometimes leaves without trading the customary pleasantries. The more genial Teddy is generally well accepted and is working his way into the Senate "Establishment" by dint of such seemingly inconsequential actions as lingering in Mississippi Senator James O. Eastland's office one morning a few years ago to sip bourbon with him. "Teddy's more casual," says Fred Holborn, a White House aide under J.F.K. "Ask Teddy to put more bite into a speech, and he'll refuse, saying...