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Traumatic Aftermath. Then, in 1957, came a great blow to Arkansas' backwater mentality. Dwight Eisenhower ordered U.S. paratroopers into Little Rock to resolve an unnecessary and uncharacteristic racial crisis over school integration. Overnight the ugly montage of shrieking segregationists, terrified Negro schoolchildren, and the dyspeptic protestations of Governor Orval Faubus became Arkansas' image to the world. The psychological effect was traumatic. Having previously prided themselves on relatively good race relations, many Arkansans were deeply repelled by the picture that they presented in the unhappy aftermath of Little Rock. It took nearly a decade to germinate, but the seed...
...changes have not come overnight. A striking example was the election of John Lindsay as mayor of New York in 1965. White Anglo-Saxon Protestants such as Lindsay make up probably no more than 5% of the city's population. His opponent, Abraham Beame, was a Jew, and as has often been said, New York is the biggest Jewish city in the world. But Lindsay won. Says Michigan's George Romney: "The bloc vote has disintegrated. In 1962, I got only 11% of the Negro vote. In 1965, it was up to 19%. This year...
...Julia Child so much as mention vanilla wafers, and the shelves are empty overnight. The kitchenware she brandishes with so much relish fares similarly. At Chicago's Cooks' Cupboard, Owner Robert George credits her show with the sudden spurt in sales of such things as fish poachers and French chef's knives...
...nothinkness. One day, riding home on the monorail, he meets a girl (Julie Christie) who looks like his wife but has something more exciting on her mind. "Have you ever read the books you burn?" she asks him slyly. He hasn't, but the idea really grabs him. Overnight, the firebug is transformed into a bookworm. Horrified, the hero's wife betrays him to the thought police; but before they can close in, he runs off to join a literary maquis composed of men and women who spend their lives strolling through a birch forest and memorizing books...
Worth the Fare? After an overnight stop and a political breakfast rally in Anchorage, Alaska, the President returned to Washington 17 days and seven nations after he had left. A smallish claque of Government workers was on hand and a huge WELL DONE, MR. PRESIDENT banner rippled in the wind-lashed rain at Dulles International Airport. The President noted wryly: "We had perfect weather until we landed in the U.S. But that shows what happens in an election year...