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Meredith was annoyed when newsmen asked him about his grades at Ole Miss. The university has said nothing, but rumors persist that Meredith is doing poorly. "You people don't seem to understand," Meredith said. "Maybe you don't think it's a very serious situation. I hear over the radio that my father's house has been shot into and you ask me how my grades are. This is not a casual thing. My father is 71 years old. He has worked hard to send ten kids through school. It's a very serious...
...Sending Troops to Ole Miss: "I don't think that anybody who looks at the situation can think we could possibly do anything else. I recognize that it has caused a lot of bitterness against me and against the national Government in Mississippi and other parts...
Just after President Kennedy sent troops to Ole Miss, his popularity, as measured by the Gallup poll, hit a low of 61%-with only 51% of Southerners approving his performance in office. Then came Cuba, and in its wake Kennedy's popularity has soared back to 74%, with a 14-point jump to 65% in the South...
Memories of Mississippi. Odds are that at least one of the Negro applicants, probably Gantt, will make it in time for spring semester in February. Is the prospect peace-or another Ole Miss mess? Last week Alabama's Governor-elect George C. Wallace rattled his battle plans in a speech before the Mississippi state legislature. "All that I am advocating is that these forces of evil bridle themselves in their lustful desires to destroy the South," he said. Like Mississippi's Ross Barnett ("your gallant Governor"), Alabama's Wallace hopes to foil desegregation by making himself "chief...
...Cornerstone of a defense that has allowed its opponents only 131 yds. per game this season, Dunaway is the nation's No. 1 college lineman in the scouts' book, a nimble giant whose hardnosed play has earned him the nickname, "the monster of Ole Miss." Too light to stay at tackle as a pro, Minnesota's Bell will probably be shifted to guard or defensive end. Also ranked high on the scouts' list are three small-college tackles. A junior at Mississippi's Negro Jackson State College, Ben McGee...