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...long time," she wrote in 1951. She castigated Southern Governors who defied the U.S. Supreme Court's order to integrate the schools. As a result, she said, Southern whites "are losing their freedom to do right, to act as their conscience dictates; they are losing the freedom to obey the law." She warned: "Neither cancer nor segregation will go away while you close your eyes.'' Last week, at 68, Miss Lil died in Atlanta of the cancer that had ravaged her body for years...
Died. Oliver Cromwell Carmichael, 74, president of the University of Alabama from 1953 to 1957; of leukemia; in Asheville, N.C. A distinguished educator, Carmichael was no match for the segregationists when, in 1956, Autherine Lucy, a Negro, tried to enroll in all-white 'Bama; he tried to obey the federal court order to admit her, but was forced by student riots and an adamant aboard of trustees to expel her, after which he resigned, became a consultant to the Ford Foundation...
Since his 211,000 votes did not constitute a clear majority, Arnall faces a runoff on Sept. 28 against Atlanta's Lester Maddox, 50, who became a martyr to the segregationist cause by closing down his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta rather than obey the 1964 civil rights law barring racial discrimination in public accommodations. Maddox drew 166,000 votes in an unexpectedly close struggle for second place with State...
...shorts and five fine features. Pursuing ever more strongly a direction evident for more than a decade, the new films showed more freedom of narrative form, more richness of visual vocabulary. The new moviemakers more and more firmly reject the rules of the drama, and more and more sensitively obey the laws of the eye. They mean to write with the lens and not with their pens. The festival's best...
...Still, militant union members were clearly unhappy about the size of the increase and threatened to remain on picket lines until they get more. If they do, they may face a further problem: a 1954 law makes strikers liable, at parliamentary discretion, to jail terms if they refuse to obey an order to return to their jobs. By week's end a nervous government had yet to enforce the threat...