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What we really need is a Baseball Hall of Names. So much melodrama and vaudeville echo in the monikers of old-time players: Lu Blue, Pebbly Jack Glasscock, Orval Overall, Baby Doll Jacobson, Heinie Manush. Sometimes a player finds a namemate from another era and forges a powerful link in baseball's memory chain. So this year let us induct Harvard Eddie Grant and Parisian Bob Caruthers, Goose Goslin and Goose Gossage, Rollie Fingers and Mordecai Peter Centennial (Three Finger) Brown. Not to forget those matching tabloid headlines, Urban Shocker and Country Slaughter...
...there's a harsher reality. Little Rock, having conquered the outward racism of 1957, when Gov. Orval Faubus tried to keep nine Black students from beginning the integration of Central High School (now 65 percent Black), is a city of inwardness and hidden feelings...
...Clintons acquired a television set just before the 1956 presidential campaign, and young Bill watched with fascination both parties' conventions. In 1958 Governor Orval Faubus closed the high school in Little Rock to prevent integration, and some families brought their children the 50 miles to Hot Springs to enroll them in Clinton's school. When Clinton and Carolyn Staley, class leaders as well as good friends, were elected to Boys Nation and Girls Nation, they went to Washington and shook John Kennedy's hand in the White House...
RACE RELATIONS. Arkansas was once almost synonymous with segregation; President Eisenhower in 1957 had to call out the National Guard to protect black students admitted to Central High School in Little Rock over the opposition of Governor Orval Faubus. Clinton has sought with some success to bring blacks into the power structure: he has appointed far more blacks to state government departments, commissions and agencies than any other Governor in Arkansas' history. The Governor also has sought to foster black enterprise by directing state agencies to place at least 10% of their purchase orders with minority-owned businesses. Once again...
...Arriving on the court shortly after the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision that struck down racial segregation, Brennan joined the judicial march toward civil rights. When Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus tried to block the entry of nine black students to Little Rock's Central High School in 1957, Brennan shaped a unanimous decision that "no state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support...