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...copy of the Gray Plan by mail from his son Harry Jr. A sincere segregationist, Harry Byrd could also see the political hay to be made out of fighting for a lily-white Virginia. In that sense, the Gray Plan had a fatal flaw: in such liberal cities as Norfolk and Alexandria, local authorities might permit a few Negro children to sit in white classrooms...
Massive Resistance. In Richmond, Governor Almond, 60, able lawyer, onetime Commonwealth attorney general, big wheel in the machine of U.S. Senator Harry Byrd, was the man who struck the South's first blow. He sent state troopers out of the capital to Norfolk, Charlottesville, Arlington, Prince Edward County, with a tough message warning the school boards not to assign Negroes to white schools under current pressure from federal courts. Was his message a warning, above all, to the Norfolk school board not to carry out its announced intention of assigning 17 Negroes to white schools? Said Almond: "Precisely that...
...Norfolk, Federal Judge Walter E. Hoffman sternly turned down a new schoolboard appeal to delay integration another year while reserving the right to rerule after the Supreme Court is heard from; and in Charlottesville, Federal Judge John Paul told Warren County that it could not keep Negro pupils out of white high schools-the Negro high schools there were nonexistent...
...NORFOLK (pop. 314,600), where Negroes have integrated jobs at the U.S. Navy base, has applications from 151 Negroes for admittance to white schools. After first turning them all down, Norfolk, under direct court order, reluctantly agreed to accept 17 at the opening of classes next week. Again, Almond is required to move-and will cheerfully...
...Exercise. Airman Thach himself needed training in submarine warfare. He took a short course at Norfolk's ASW Tactical School, whizzed through studies in sound detection in New London, dropped anchor at Key West's weapons-testing center, climbed aboard every nuclear submarine in the Atlantic, visited destroyers, jawed with officers and bluejackets. Next he ordered a "cross-pollination" program, sent his aviators aboard submarines, his sub skippers into helicopters, his destroyer men into 52Fs. He put airplane pilots at the helms of submarines to help work out tactical underwater maneuvers...