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Under Mississippi law, grand and petit juries are drawn from lists of citizens who have registered and paid poll tax. Among the 8,836 Negroes of Carroll County, Miss. (pop. 15,448), where Goldsby was indicted and tried, there is not one registered voter-hence, no qualified Negro juror. Twenty-two other Mississippi counties with similarly heavy Negro populations are also without Negro voters. Taking note of these statistics, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard T. Rives, Alabama-born, ordered Goldsby retried within eight months (after the Supreme Court ruling) before "a legally constituted jury" (i.e., one chosen from a panel from...
...Administration has not yet decided whether or not it should poll students on the desirability of "deconverting" the seven original Houses. "Deconversion," for those who have short memories, means the reduction of House suites to numbers approximating those of the thirties. It also means higher rooms rents and the loss of a roommate...
...after three wars under Democratic administrations, the G.O.P. had established itself in the popular mind as the party most likely to keep world peace. The seven peaceful years of the Eisenhower Administration have done little to change that image for better or worse. Last week a Gallup poll showed these results on the question of which party is most likely to keep...
David E. Owen, Master of Winthrop House, said that the Masters know the problem exists, but so far "we have not had enough elbow room to try deconversion. From the evidence we have," Owen stated, "there is more room for deconversion." But if a poll can be put in specific terms, he said, "it will be a very useful thing...
...ease interhouse restrictions. The poll showed 65 per cent of the students responding wanted interhouse at both lunch and dinner. Committee chairman Howard J. Phillips '62 said congestion Monday-Wednesday-Friday at 1 p.m., student-tutor ratios, and discrepancies in Houses' popularities are listed as reasons for keeping interhouse only at the dinner meal...