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Early this December, students at the University of Texas began protest picketing of the segregated ABC-Paramount movie theatre chain in Austin. The theatre pickets are spreading, and now some of the groups that co-ordinated last year's sit-in strikes in Atlanta are calling for a nation-wide movement. In Boston, EPIC will shortly organize pickets at Boston theatres belonging to the chain...
...stressed that this protest is not a "token demonstration" but will be followed by more protests at local ABC-Paramount theatres...
...response to a call from student integration leaders in the South, over 300 students, veterans, and labor unionists will demonstrate in Boston Sunday against the segregation practices of southern branches of the ABC-Paramount theatre-chain...
...further opened the way for the Orleans Parish School Board to claim $1,262,000 in funds that had been ordered withheld by the Louisiana legislature; the ruling was immediately appealed to the Supreme Court, where hopefully it will receive top priority on the calendar as a matter of "paramount public importance." During the week, no less than 700 officials, including Governor Jimmie Davis, were federally enjoined against interfering with integration...
...paramount problem for the new Administration, Mrs. Roosevelt observed, is Cuban situation and, for that matter, entire Latin American area. "It is defectly understandable why the Cubans hostile," she said, "for we have suped a government which clearly signi oppression to the people...