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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (pop. 30,300). Parents' groups rushed plans to set up temporary schooling in private homes, fraternal clubs and churches, but most churches flatly refused to lend their facilities for such a purpose, turned the segregationists away. As the private-school groups scrounged to find rooms elsewhere, 200 parents formed an organization to "pursue every legal means to keep public schools open." Led by such top local people as Dr. Ralph Cherry, dean of the University of Virginia's School of Education, and Elementary School Principal D. Mott Robertson, the 200 declared themselves above the integration debate, asked...
...NORFOLK (pop. 314,600). After failing to stop a federal order to integrate 17 Negro pupils, the school board postponed the opening of the fall term to Sept. 29. hoped to get satisfaction in circuit court. If it fails again, the board will admit the Negroes, and Governor Almond, invoking his massive-resistance laws, will shut down Norfolk's six Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools...
FRONT ROYAL (pop. 9,000). With the closing of the only high school in Warren County (TIME, Sept. 22). business slowed to a standstill. The P.T.A. canceled its fun festival. Students lazed around The Corner Shoppe across the street from the maple-shaded courthouse, drinking Cokes, leafing through girlie magazines, playing the pinball machine. Both management and labor at the nearby American Viscose Corp. plant spoke up hotly against the school shutdown. Key reason for the bitterness: the Negro population in Front Royal is so small (8% of the total population) that the town could work out its problems...
Minutes after bumping down on the scrubby landing strip at little (pop. 1,440) Benson ("Used to have to run the cows off here." he said), the Senator, a tall, bronzed, lean-jawed, silver-haired man of 49. was shaking hands with sleepy-eyed shift workers at the Apache Powder Corp. plant. The day wore swiftly on, the miles slipped by. At Merrill's grocery in the Mormon crossroads of St. David (pop. 10), Goldwater paused for breakfast-a bottle of Coke-before hustling on to a campaign appearance in rural Pomerene (pop. 150). Then came...
...first U.S. experiment in metropolitan-area government was test-launched in Florida's Dade County 16 months ago, when voters okayed a single "Metro" charter for Miami (pop. 290,000) and 25 satellite municipalities (see map). Urban experts and harassed civic leaders in other states looked up from desperate struggles with their common problem-how to develop unified plans and services throughout a central city and its independent suburbs-to pray for Metro's success. Foreign specialists came to study Metro as they once studied TVA. But, with no politicians to defend it, the new idea became...