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...townsfolk insist that the prison guards treated their charges with fair discipline and genuinely tried to help them. The residents feel strongly that the riot occurred because of the "permissiveness" of state officials???notably Oswald, who is as heartily detested as the inmates. "Oswald was at fault," said Frank Mandeville, for many years the owner of Timm's Hardware. "If he had gone in right away, some lives might have been lost, but not on the tragic scale we have now." Mandeville, who still doubts that the hostages were killed by police bullets rather than knife wounds, insists: "Political pressure...
...automatic right to question members of the Executive Branch, who wield increasing power over the lives of Americans. Such scrutiny falls to the press, which must be unhindered in its honest endeavor to seek out the truth. This pursuit surely outranks the squeamishness and even the reputations of public officials???unless it can be proved beyond cavil that the national interest is seriously endangered. And that takes a lot of proving...
There are other harbingers. In the eleven states of the Old Confederacy, there are 665 black elected officials???state legislators, mayors, sheriffs and judges, county commissioners, city councilmen and school-board members. Last November, 110 blacks won political office, for a net gain of 75. Everywhere, the South's 3,350,000 black voters are a powerful new factor in the region's electoral equation. In some areas, black officials have taken control of the columned county courthouses that were the symbols of white domination; elsewhere, the impact of newly registered blacks has forced white politicians into accommodations that seemed...
...handiwork more than anyone else's. Dirksen's 70-odd amendments are less notable for their number than for their thrust. In essence, he has changed the bill so as to allow the states more leeway in controlling their own civil rights conflicts, and to bar possibly overzealous federal officials???such as an Attorney General?from charging in and initiating civil rights suits without first establishing a "pattern" of discrimination. On both sides of the Senate aisle, almost everyone agrees that Dirksen's proposed amendments vastly improved the House-passed bill...
Franklin Roosevelt tossed his head, laughed heartily, declared that he had them all intrigued about what was coming. Then he recited more names?Cabinet and sub-Cabinet officials???and again grinned. Was it not a queer combination of notables? The puzzled correspondents agreed that it was. That group, the President explained, was going to meet that very afternoon to devise ways; means of taking profits...