Word: ole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college student would," he wrote in the dispatch that went out to all client A.P. newspapers, "and easily milled among the rioters on the University of Mississippi campus." On that September night in Oxford in 1962, two men were to die in the violence provoked by the registration of Ole Miss's first Negro student, James Mere dith. The A.P.'s Savell reported it all. He also reported the gaunt and commanding presence of onetime Major General Edwin A. Walker...
...lawyer whom Marshall fondly calls "about as Negro as a white man can get." Greenberg's No. 2 man is a woman, the formidable Negro lawyer and New York State senator, Constance Baker Motley (Columbia '46), who in 1962 calmly convoyed James Meredith through the courts into Ole Miss. "We couldn't have asked for anyone better," says the Justice Department's Burke Marshall. "She could work for anyone...
However, there are curbs on this power. If Barnett and Johnson were charged with contempt of a federal district court, they could well argue for a jury trial under certain provisions of the 1914 Clayton Act. Such a court did in fact order Negro Student James Meredith enrolled at Ole Miss. But Justice Tom Clark, speaking for the majority, put Barnett and Johnson squarely in the hands of the Court of Appeals, which had also enjoined them from interfering. Said Clark: "It would be anomalous for a Court of Appeals to have the power to punish contempt...
...Pacific (CINCPAC), succeeds retiring Admiral Harry Donald Felt (TIME cover, Jan. 6, 1961) as chief of the largest military command in the world, spanning 85 million square miles and including the hot war in South Viet Nam. In midshipman days, quiet-spoken Admiral Sharp was tagged with the nickname Ole and he still carries it-along with a reputation as "the old-shoe admiral." But, says one fellow officer, "he has a voluminous memory, a mind like a sponge" and, when provoked, "can really explode." His specialty: providing clear, precise answers to complex problems...
...step from investigation to action was a quick one. Early in 1961 Higgs was approached by a young Negro wearing a purple shirt, leather jacket, sunglasses, and a determined frown. "You've spoken well of us, Mr. Higgs, but we've all heard enough talk. I plan to enter Ole Miss this year. Help me." The lawyer agreed, and eighteen months later James Meredith walked on to the Oxford campus...