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...modern social protest. At one point in his campaign to swing public opinion against the reluctant spinsters, the civic leader enlists the support of some collegiate picketers who are suffering from the "Age-of-Anxiety Blues." Distressed that "Jim Baldwin said kid you gotta take a stand, but Ole Miss has opened and the bomb has been banned," the Wellesley-Brandeis-Radcliffe collection of demonstrators complain that "Sartre said kid you gotta decide/but how can I determine the essence inside...
...classes in the new fall term, McDow ell dropped his sunglasses. He stooped to retrieve them - and out of his pocket fell a .22-cal. pistol. When he walked out of class, he was arrested by County Sheriff Joe Ford. A day later, McDow ell, 22, was expelled from Ole Miss...
Only a few days before, McDowell had told a campus newspaper reporter that he felt things were going pretty well. "I'm not walking around in fear of constant attack," he had said. Yet he confided in Ole Miss Episcopal Chaplain Wofford Smith that he had bought the pistol because he was "scared." The few U.S. marshals who had been living on the campus to protect both Negroes had left after Meredith's graduation in Au gust. Recalled Smith: "McDowell said he had applied for a permit to carry his pistol. I told him this was the perfect...
...took Palmer to calm everyone down. On the first tee next morning, he wrapped the unhappy Nicklaus in a bear hug. "Hi there, ole buddy!" grinned Palmer, and the two marched down the fairway arm in arm. Able to concentrate again, Nicklaus regained his steady brilliance, was able to open a two-stroke lead by the end of the first nine. Palmer managed to pull even on the twelfth hole, but then on the 13th he punched a two iron smack into a tree and wound up with a double bogey that ended all chances...
...last-ditch Segregationist Johnson, he tarred Coleman with being an old friend of Jack Kennedy (whose name is mud in Mississippi), painted himself as the man "who stood up for Mississippi" by blocking, for a while, the admission of Negro James Meredith to Ole Miss. Such is the climate of Mississippi today that the Coleman-Johnson runoff was hardly a contest. Johnson won, with 261,000 votes to Coleman...